Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISDo not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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