There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVISI never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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 like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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