It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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