Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVISYou should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Music is an addiction.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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