All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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