If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music is an addiction.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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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.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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