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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
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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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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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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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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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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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