To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVISIf you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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 you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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 have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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