You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
MILES DAVISMy future starts when I wake up every morning.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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