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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.

Miles Davis

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time 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.
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Art Greatness Music Play
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
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
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Play Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand 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.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Music Reason
Play what you know and then play above that
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Known Music Play Yourself

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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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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