For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVISYou can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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There are no wrong notes.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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