If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISDon’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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