Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVISI’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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