It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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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.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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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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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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 know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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 know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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