If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVISPlay what you know and then play above that
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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