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.
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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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