Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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