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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.
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
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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