Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVISWhite folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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