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Music is the framework around the silence.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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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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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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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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