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.
MILES DAVISIf 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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There are no wrong notes.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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