A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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