It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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