The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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