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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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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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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, 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 can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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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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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Sometimes, if you ask people to go downstairs and get me this or that, they'll say, It's rainin or It might rain, or There's some bumpy roads on the road, or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, Damn, you did that?
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
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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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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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