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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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I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
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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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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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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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I couldn't do What's Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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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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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
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