I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISAlways listen for what you can leave out.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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