If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVISJazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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There are no wrong notes.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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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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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.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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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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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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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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