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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.

Miles Davis

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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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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Answer Call Myself Phone
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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.
MILES DAVIS

Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Person Play Yourself
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman

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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