It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVISA painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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