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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.

Miles Davis

Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVIS

Answer Call Myself Phone
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong
In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVIS

Important Music Silence Sound
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Genius One Liner
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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.
MILES DAVIS

Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
MILES DAVIS

Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
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
There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVIS

Music Notes One Liner Wrong
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Name Play
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVIS

Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner

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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