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Music is the framework around the silence.

Miles Davis

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVIS

Acceptance Mistake Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
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.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself

Music is the framework around the silence.

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