White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISIt takes a long time to sound like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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 care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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