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 DAVISDon’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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 should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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