A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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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Music is an addiction.
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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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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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