You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVISAlways look ahead, but never look back.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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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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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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?
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