Miles Davis Quotes

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.

When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

The first instinct is love.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.