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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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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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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you have to ask, you'll never 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 like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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