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 you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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