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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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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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That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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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There are no wrong notes.
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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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