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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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.
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I put all those synthesizer sounds behind Decoy and Code M.D. A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.
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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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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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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've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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The reason [drummers] call things unison, and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat it's so slight that they call it unison, but it's not unison.
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