Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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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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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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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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