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 DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Music is an addiction.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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