Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVISAll my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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