If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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