First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISAnybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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