Dominique Ferrell

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis

“But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.”
― Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography

“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Being rebellious and black, a nonconformist, being cool and hip and angry and sophisticated and ultra clean, whatever else you want to call it -- I was all those things and more. But I was playing the fuck out of my horn and had a great group, so I didn't get recognition based only on a rebel image.”
― Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography