When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Music is an addiction.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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