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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved D Train. We couldn't call it D Train it's called MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2. That's on the album.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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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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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.
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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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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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.
Miles Davis
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
Miles Davis
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Miles Davis
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis
I couldn't do What's Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.
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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
Miles Davis
