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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
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Miles Dewey Davis III
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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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He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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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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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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Sometimes, if you ask people to go downstairs and get me this or that, they'll say, It's rainin or It might rain, or There's some bumpy roads on the road, or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, Damn, you did that?
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
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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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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
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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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