"You have to know 400 notes that you……" — Miles Davis
"You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four."
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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 Four Quotes
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are.…
— Tom Baker
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part…
— Roger Bannister
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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
— Dave Barry
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for…
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