There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS