If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Music is an addiction.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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