People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVISIn Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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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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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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You 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.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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