Miles Davis Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Art, Sacrifice, Men

• 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, Men, America

• See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

  Miles Davis

  Art, Thinking, Order

• I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

  Miles Davis

  Art, Play, Band

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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