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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Win Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

Ideas Judgement Man Project
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

Call Known Legend Music Myself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVIS

Life Music Style
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVIS

Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself

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