Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVISYou know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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