Food makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISPeople will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVISSometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVISIn 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 DAVISIn Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISIt’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVISMy 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.
MILES DAVISIt 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?
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVISFor me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVISYou 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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