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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
Composer
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
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I couldn't do What's Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.
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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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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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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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I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved D Train. We couldn't call it D Train it's called MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2. That's on the album.
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Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
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My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
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