Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Music is an addiction.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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