It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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