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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
Actor
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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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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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
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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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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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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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In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
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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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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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