You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVISDon’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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