Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISIf you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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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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