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.
MILES DAVISIf somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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