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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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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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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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I put all those synthesizer sounds behind Decoy and Code M.D. A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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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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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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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
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That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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