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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

Miles Davis

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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.
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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
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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?
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
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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.
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If I hear a song like Time After Time. I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, God damnnnnn!
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