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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

Miles Davis

If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Human Sound Voice World
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Feeling Known
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.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

Ideas Judgement Man Project
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVIS

Answer Call Myself Phone
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Person Play Yourself
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVIS

Change Help Music Play Way
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVIS

Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
MILES DAVIS

Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself

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