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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Jazz Musician
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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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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Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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