I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVISAlways listen for what you can leave out.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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 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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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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