A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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