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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Miles Davis

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Human Sound Voice World
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVIS

Enough Hype People Understand
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Myself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS

Appearance Care Himself Myself
Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVIS

Addiction Music One Liner
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVIS

Horn Instrument Play Yourself
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
MILES DAVIS

Art Greatness Music Play
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Notes Play Yourself
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
MILES DAVIS

Father Myself Play Suffering
Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVIS

Forward Future Past See
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Character Musician Play
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVIS

Change Help Music Play Way

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