It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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