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To keep creating you have to be about change.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
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You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.
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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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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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I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
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Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
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I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved D Train. We couldn't call it D Train it's called MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2. That's on the album.
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