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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Miles Davis

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVIS

Funny Music Thinking Yourself
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Name Play
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Musician Ruin 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
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Be Yourself Musician Play Time
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
MILES DAVIS

Known Man Myself Old
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself

I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

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