In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
MILES DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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