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.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Music is an addiction.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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