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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
MILES DAVIS

Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play
First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVIS

Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVIS

Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS

Appearance Care Himself Myself
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
MILES DAVIS

Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
MILES DAVIS

Myself Rhythm Writing
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
MILES DAVIS

Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Myself
Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVIS

Framework Music Perspective Silence

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