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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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Miles Dewey Davis III
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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
Miles Davis
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
Miles Davis
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
Miles Davis
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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
Miles Davis
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
Miles Davis
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Miles Davis
Always look ahead, but never look back.
Miles Davis
When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
Miles Davis
Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
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