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 DAVISWhat’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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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