It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
MILES DAVISFor me, music and life are all about style.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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