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’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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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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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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