Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVISYou have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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