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Miles Davis Quotes

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

Miles Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991

Topics

Family Music Great Listening Guitar

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Jim Yong Kim

Good Growth Women People End Find

Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I haven't done that yet. No matter how many games we've played, it's still hard to figure out when you've made it in the NFL.

Robert Griffin III

Accomplishment You Done Games Matter

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

History Small Get Caught Forces

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

Sonia Johnson

Home Thinking Human First Up Second

We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you deregulate these genes, you unleash cancer. Now, what disrupts these genes? Mutations.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Grow Environment You Stop Know Now

I think I'm very focused and am quite a good multitasker, and I'm quite driven in knowing what my responsibilities are to my family and knowing what I've got to do to do that.

Trinny Woodall

Family Good Think Focused Knowing

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Shirin Ebadi

Doubt Important Always Leave Room

I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.

Tommy Lee Jones

Life Business World Grow Growing

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

Jason Statham

Action You Inevitable Movies Point

Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.

Jonny Greenwood

Good Experience Day Habit Nothing

I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada.

Claire Messud

New York Canada Person New Different

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

Chung Mong-joon

War Cold Nuclear Weapons Cold War