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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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Miles Dewey Davis III
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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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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I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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There are no wrong notes.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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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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