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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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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
Miles Davis
I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
Miles Davis
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
Miles Davis
I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.
Miles Davis
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
Miles Davis
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis
The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
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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I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
Miles Davis
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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
To keep creating you have to be about change.
Miles Davis
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
Miles Davis
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
Miles Davis
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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.
Miles Davis
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
Miles Davis
There are no wrong notes.
Miles Davis
John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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