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?
MILES DAVISJazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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.
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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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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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