When 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.
MILES DAVISJazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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