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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Miles Davis

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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Father Myself Play Suffering
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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.
MILES DAVIS

Oneself People Question Sound Time
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
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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Art Greatness Music Play
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
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.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White

If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

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