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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Miles Davis

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
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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Oneself People Question Sound Time
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

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