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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Recording Artist
Songwriter
Television Actor
Alton
Illinois
Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
Music
Everything
Jazz
Understood

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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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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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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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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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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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If I hear a song like Time After Time. I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, God damnnnnn!
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I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
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