Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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