For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVISIf you have to ask, you’ll never know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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 out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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There are no wrong notes.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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