I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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