Miles Davis: Do You Ever Play the Wrong Note?
“A wrong line?”
A wrong line?
The line isn’t wrong until
You have to put the next one down.
Music is the same way.
You don’t make bad notes
The note next to the one
That you think is bad
Corrects the one in front.
Only way you can do that
Is by experience.
Only way you can take a line
That you didn’t mean to draw
Is to draw every day.
— Miles Davis,
Interview by Brane Rončel in Munich, Germany (1988)