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 DAVISIf 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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 think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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