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.
MILES DAVISIt takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Music is an addiction.
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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 think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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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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