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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Miles Davis

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.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Name Play
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.
MILES DAVIS

Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVIS

Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVIS

Drugs Feeling Music
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVIS

Love Music Myself Play Quit
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.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word

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