"I don't like to hear someone put down……" — Miles Davis
"I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know."
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93 Quotes by Miles Davis
Miles Davis has 93 quotes on this site.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from,…
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you…
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth,…
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic,…
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I…
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More Bops Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly…
— Julie Burchill
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I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop…
— Little Richard
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I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the…
— Joey Ramone
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Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
— Thelonious Monk
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
— Count Basie
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Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or…
— Jack Kerouac
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Bop is no love-child of jazz.
— Charlie Parker
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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham!…
— Charlie Parker
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians,…
— Gunther Schuller
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Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the…
— Unknown Author
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Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.
— Scott Yanow
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