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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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 know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
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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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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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Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
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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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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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