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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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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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 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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I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
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He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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