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PASSING IT ON TO OTHERS
Hi,
I would like someone explain to me this expression I have read on Miles Davis's Autobiography:
'When I think about the ones who are dead it makes me mad. But their spirits are walking around in me, so they are still here and PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS.'
Does it mean that "their spirits" are walking around in others souls like in him?
Thanks, Jo.
I would like someone explain to me this expression I have read on Miles Davis's Autobiography:
'When I think about the ones who are dead it makes me mad. But their spirits are walking around in me, so they are still here and PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS.'
Does it mean that "their spirits" are walking around in others souls like in him?
Thanks, Jo.
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PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS It is not clear to me what it refers to.
- PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS It is not clear to me what it refers to.
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PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS
It is not clear to me what it refers to.
It is not clear to me what it refers to.
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I wouldn't take this as a genuine belief that dead spirits are inhabiting live bodies.
I think he means the spirit of their music, their talent, their love of that type of music. He is still playing it and that music is being passed on to others.
Similar to how we say that people live on in their children. We don't literally mean that you get possessed by the spirits of your dea
I think he means the spirit of their music, their talent, their love of that type of music. He is still playing it and that music is being passed on to others.
Similar to how we say that people live on in their children. We don't literally mean that you get possessed by the spirits of your dea
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I think it means that all the memories of that person is still alive on his mind. It is still fresh and he keeps on having it as part of good or bad things when that person was with him. Or some memories that curved in the minds of this person and will tell to some until it passes from generation to generation.
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'When I think about the ones who are dead it makes me mad. But their spirits are walking around in me, so they are still here and PASSING IT ON TO THE OTHERS.'
When I think about the ones who are dead it makes me mad. But I have absorbed their knowledge, so indirectly through me, they are still here (in a poetic sense) because I am still here, and they are, in effect, passing the
When I think about the ones who are dead it makes me mad. But I have absorbed their knowledge, so indirectly through me, they are still here (in a poetic sense) because I am still here, and they are, in effect, passing the
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