A Quote by Miles Davis

If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

Miles Davis

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Miles Davis
American - Musician
May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991

The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

Miles Davis

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Khalil Gibran

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Jane Austen

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

Katherine Paterson

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

Georges Braque

When I hear 'fusion,' I think of Tricky-Dick stuff - really hairy melodies played in unison. It's like, 'Why?'

Allan Holdsworth

People must work in unison.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Richard Thompson

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Steve Reich

Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

Anthony Bourdain

All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

Laozi

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Leonard Sweet

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

Misty Copeland

Physical love must end up as a creative love. And creative love must end up as a divine love. And divine love must end up as a unison love. And unison love must become God Itself. These are the known stages of love.