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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.

Miles Davis

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
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
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.
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Music Myself Sell Word
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
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.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
MILES DAVIS

Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.

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