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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
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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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That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.
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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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