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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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