You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVISWe don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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