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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Miles Davis

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time 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.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
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

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