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 Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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 hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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