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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Sometimes, if you ask people to go downstairs and get me this or that, they'll say, It's rainin or It might rain, or There's some bumpy roads on the road, or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, Damn, you did that?
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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I put all those synthesizer sounds behind Decoy and Code M.D. A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.
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I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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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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I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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