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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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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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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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