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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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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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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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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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 never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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