I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
MILES DAVISDon’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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There are no wrong notes.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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I 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.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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