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Miles Davis

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
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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Known Myself Woman
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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 DAVIS

Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
MILES DAVIS

Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!

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