"If you're trying to be hip, be hip." — Miles Davis
"If you're trying to be hip, be hip."
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Miles Davis
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93 Quotes by Miles Davis
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from,…
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you…
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth,…
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic,…
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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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…
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More Hip Quotes
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Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward…
— Erykah Badu
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
— Afrika Bambaataa
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
— Tyra Banks
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I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I…
— Tyra Banks
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Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting…
— Andre Benjamin
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I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.
— Justin Bieber
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time.…
— Mary J. Blige
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
— Kurtis Blow
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As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting…
— Bono
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