It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISA legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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’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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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