When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
MILES DAVISI like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Music is an addiction.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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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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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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