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 DAVISIn 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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.
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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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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