Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Miles DavisRead
For me, music and life are all about style.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of style in both music and life.
Miles Davis suggests that style is a fundamental aspect of both music and life, indicating that one's personal approach and expression are what make experiences unique. Through this perspective, he highlights how style shapes our identity and enriches our interactions with the world.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about creativity in the arts.
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
My ego only needs a good rhythm section
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
I trust that if God gives me music for someone else, that's what He wants that person to have. I have to trust that that's what they're supposed to do and that's the music that should specifically be released for them and their ministry, for their career and for their audience.
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
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