All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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