Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVISYou have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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