Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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 ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Music is an addiction.
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