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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
Miles Dewey Davis
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The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
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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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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 said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
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Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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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.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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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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