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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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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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My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
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Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
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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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In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
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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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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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I put all those synthesizer sounds behind Decoy and Code M.D. A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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