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Miles Davis

He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Play Yourself
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

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVIS

Forward Future Past See
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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