First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISYou have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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.
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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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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music is an addiction.
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