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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

Miles Davis

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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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 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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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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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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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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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've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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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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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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