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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

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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Music Play Sadness White
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
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.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
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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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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