Okay, yes, but among other things Miles said:
"Don't play what's there," he told his young musicians: "Play what's
not there." And he kept telling saxophonists to keep it down, do less.
Doug
On 16-Oct-09, at 11:56 AM, John Herbert Cunningham wrote:
> That quote of Miles should be attributed to Charlie Christian who
> stated,
> and I paraphrase, it's the notes you don't play that are important.
> John Herbert Cunningham
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> Subject: Re: moron tries to brighten up romantic poetry
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> Reminded me of this:
>
> Years ago my mother had a subscription to the opera. She didn't care
> for much after Puccini and offered me her seat for a performance of
> Wozzeck, one of my absolute favorites, long stretches of which are
> wordless. Except that the lack of words from the stage was more than
> offset by the chatter of those around me. Seems that they interpreted
> non-singing as silence, needing to be filled.
>
> At 11:15 AM 10/16/2009, you wrote:
>> Now, II thought Andrew would have commented by now, quoting Miles
>> Davis on the necessity of silence in music. What's between the notes
>> being as important as the notes themselves.
>>
>> Or that silence sometimes between the words, the phrases.
>>
>> Or all the sounds IN the silence, as Cage revealed....
>>
>> Which, yes, perhaps we fear....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 16-Oct-09, at 9:04 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 04:29 -0700, Brian Hawkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps our culture has a problem with silence, including the
>>>> silences
>>> between words.
>>>
>>> It is supposed to be one of those golden rules of radio
>>> production: no
>>> silence allowed.
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> Take away my wisdom and my categories!
>>
>> Phyllis Webb
>
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