Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVISYou can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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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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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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