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 DAVISWhen the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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