In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISI think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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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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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