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.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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