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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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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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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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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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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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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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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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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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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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