Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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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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.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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