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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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More quotes by Miles Davis
I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
Miles Davis
The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
Miles Davis
If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
Miles Davis
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
Miles Davis
In music, silence is more important than sound.
Miles Davis
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
Miles Davis
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
Miles Davis
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
Miles Davis
Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
Miles Davis
I couldn't do What's Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
Miles Davis
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Miles Davis
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
Miles Davis
Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
Miles Davis
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
Miles Davis
Music is the framework around the silence.
Miles Davis
Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
Miles Davis
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
