It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISKnowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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