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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.
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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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That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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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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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 kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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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.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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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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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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