You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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When 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.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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