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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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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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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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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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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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