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.
MILES DAVISI can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Music is an addiction.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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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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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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