I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
MILES DAVISColtrane, you cant play everything at once!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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