Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVISThat was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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.
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