You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music is an addiction.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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