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.
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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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Music is an addiction.
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