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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?

Miles Davis

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVIS

Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVIS

Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVIS

Follow Musician Revolution
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVIS

Important Music Silence Sound
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
MILES DAVIS

Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVIS

Love Music Myself Play Quit
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVIS

Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
I 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.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Notes Play Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

Ideas Judgement Man Project

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