Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Meaning of the quote
To play like yourself, you need to practice for a long time. It takes a lot of work to develop your own unique style and sound. The more you play, the better you'll become at expressing yourself through your music.
About Miles Davis
Miles Davis was an acclaimed American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who had a prolific and influential career spanning five decades. He pioneered multiple jazz styles, from cool jazz and hard bop to jazz fusion, and recorded some of the most iconic albums in the genre’s history, including the best-selling jazz album of all time, ‘Kind of Blue’.
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