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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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I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.
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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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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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