In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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