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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

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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 never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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 understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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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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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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The reason [drummers] call things unison, and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat it's so slight that they call it unison, but it's not unison.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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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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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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