It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISYou can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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