A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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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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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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There are no wrong notes.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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