You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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There are no wrong notes.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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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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