There are no wrong notes.
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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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