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 usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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