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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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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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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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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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If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
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That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.
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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 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 hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
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If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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