People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVISAlways look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Music is an addiction.
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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 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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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