I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
MILES DAVISIt’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Music is an addiction.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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