Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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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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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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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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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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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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