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 DAVISKnowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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