It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISIf 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!”
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is an addiction.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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