First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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 never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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