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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

Miles Davis

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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVIS

Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVIS

Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVIS

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

Myself Understand Yourself
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Win Yourself
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time
You 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.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Genius One Liner
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
MILES DAVIS

Known Man Myself Old
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVIS

Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
MILES DAVIS

Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself

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