In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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