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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.
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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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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
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