Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISColtrane, you cant play everything at once!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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In 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.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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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.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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