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

Miles Davis

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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Alton
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
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If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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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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When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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The reason [drummers] call things unison, and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat it's so slight that they call it unison, but it's not unison.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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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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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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