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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
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Bandleader
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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Alton
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
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Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays My Funny Valentine on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play Jean Pierre with the changes on celeste.
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Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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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 really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
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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.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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