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Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
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When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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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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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
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I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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