I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
MILES DAVISI’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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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 never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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