In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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 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 think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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