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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

Miles Davis

If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVIS

Music Notes One Liner Wrong
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
MILES DAVIS

Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVIS

Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVIS

Best Lips Myself Play
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
MILES DAVIS

Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
MILES DAVIS

Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Notes Play Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

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