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

Miles Davis

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Music Reason
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
MILES DAVIS

Enjoyment Listening White
Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVIS

Addiction Music One Liner
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVIS

Follow Musician Revolution
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
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
MILES DAVIS

Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVIS

Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Play Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVIS

Feeling Genius One Liner
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

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

Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS

Change Creation Yourself

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

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