A Quote by Wayne Shorter
When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.
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I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.
If you don't want to play and get concussed, then don't play. It's your career, it's your life. You have to make that decision on your own.
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
Zidane only asks that you train well and then he decides on the games we will play in.
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.
My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.
Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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