There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVISDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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