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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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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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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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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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