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Miles Davis

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVIS

Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
MILES DAVIS

Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
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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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVIS

Idol Inspirational Myself
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play

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