In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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.
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