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Famous Miles Davis Quotes
“Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.”
“There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.”
“[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.”
“I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.”
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.”
“I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.”
“I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.”
“You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.”
“For me, music and life are all about style.”
“It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.”
“Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.”
“Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.”
“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.”
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”