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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Miles Davis

My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
MILES DAVIS

Father Myself Play Suffering
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music Myself Time Video
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
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.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVIS

Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVIS

Idol Inspirational Myself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
MILES DAVIS

Play Slow Speed Yourself
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself

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