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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Miles Davis

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
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
MILES DAVIS

Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVIS

Addiction Music One Liner
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVIS

Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
MILES DAVIS

Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVIS

Answer Call Myself Phone
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVIS

Funny Music Thinking Yourself
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Feeling Known
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVIS

Life Music Style
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Man Myself Player
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.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
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
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

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