You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISFor me, music and life are all about style.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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