Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVIS
Related Topics
Note
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
More Miles Davis Quotes
-
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVIS -
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVIS -
First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVIS -
Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVIS -
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVIS -
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVIS -
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS -
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVIS -
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
MILES DAVIS -
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.
MILES DAVIS -
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS -
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS -
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVIS -
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
MILES DAVIS -
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
MILES DAVIS -
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
MILES DAVIS