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.
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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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