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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
―“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”
―“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”
―“It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?”
― Miles: The Autobiography“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
―“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery”
― Miles: The Autobiography“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
―“When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.”
―“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”
―“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”
―“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.”
―“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.”
―“If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.”
―“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.”
―“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”
―“Music is an addiction.”
―“For me, music and life are all about style.”
―“I always listen to what I can leave out.”
―“A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.”
― Miles: The Autobiography“If you don't know what to play, play nothing.”
―“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
―“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.”
―“But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.”
― Miles: The Autobiography
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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