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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.

Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVIS

Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVIS

Change Help Music Play Way
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time
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.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
MILES DAVIS

Afraid Inspirational Mistake
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVIS

Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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?
MILES DAVIS

Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVIS

Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
MILES DAVIS

Art Greatness Music Play
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Win Yourself
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS

Appearance Care Himself Myself
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
MILES DAVIS

Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance

I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.

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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.

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