It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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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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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.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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 was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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