Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
MILES DAVISIt took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand 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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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 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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS