I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Music is an addiction.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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