Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Music is an addiction.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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