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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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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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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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There are no wrong notes.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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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.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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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 want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.
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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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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
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I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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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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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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