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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
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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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.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing 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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I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
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My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
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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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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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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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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
Miles Davis
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
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