It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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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.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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