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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

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 usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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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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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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