I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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