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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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