My future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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