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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 to ask, you'll never know.
Miles Davis
The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
Miles Davis
Food makes my mind sluggish.
Miles Davis
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
Miles Davis
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
Miles Davis
John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
Miles Davis
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
Miles Davis
Music is the framework around the silence.
Miles Davis
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
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?
Miles Davis
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis