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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

Miles Davis

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Play Yourself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play
To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Yourself
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
MILES DAVIS

Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Character Musician Play
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVIS

Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
MILES DAVIS

Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVIS

Best Lips Myself Play

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