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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
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I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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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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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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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've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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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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