There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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