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

Miles Davis

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVIS

Music Notes One Liner Wrong
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
MILES DAVIS

Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Feeling Known
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

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

Important Music Silence Sound
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
MILES DAVIS

Myself Rhythm Writing
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
MILES DAVIS

Afraid Inspirational Mistake
Food makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVIS

Food Mindset Myself
First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVIS

Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
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

Comfortable Music Reason
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.
MILES DAVIS

Art Greatness Music Play

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

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