If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVISIn 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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There are no wrong notes.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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