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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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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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The reason [drummers] call things unison, and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat it's so slight that they call it unison, but it's not unison.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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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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