People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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