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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.

Miles Davis

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVIS

Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVIS

Drugs Feeling Music
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Label Thinking Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVIS

Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Play Yourself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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.
MILES DAVIS

Father Myself Play Suffering
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVIS

Horn Instrument Play Yourself

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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