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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Sometimes, if you ask people to go downstairs and get me this or that, they'll say, It's rainin or It might rain, or There's some bumpy roads on the road, or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, Damn, you did that?
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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