I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVISIf you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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