Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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