You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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