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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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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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I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
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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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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
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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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When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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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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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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