You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVISIf you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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