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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.

Miles Davis

We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
MILES DAVIS

Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Name Play
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
MILES DAVIS

Oneself People Question Sound Time
For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVIS

Life Music Style
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Notes Play Yourself
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Win Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVIS

Enough Hype People Understand
In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVIS

Important Music Silence Sound
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVIS

Best Lips Myself Play
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Art Greatness Music Play
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Genius One Liner
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

Call Known Legend Music Myself

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