It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISYou 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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 never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Music is an addiction.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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