Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
MILES DAVISIt 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?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play 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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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.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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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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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