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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
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Bandleader
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
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Alton
Illinois
Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
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When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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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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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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