A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVISJazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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There are no wrong notes.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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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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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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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