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Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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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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I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.
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I put all those synthesizer sounds behind Decoy and Code M.D. A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it.
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Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays My Funny Valentine on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play Jean Pierre with the changes on celeste.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
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