A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVISJazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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