If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVISYou can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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There are no wrong notes.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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