Composition Quote by Miles Davis Download Open image “Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.” — Miles Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Jazz Monk Music Musical Streets Taught
One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first… — Ted King Copy Share Image
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
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… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
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