Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVISIn improvisation, there are no mistakes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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 know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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