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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
III Davis
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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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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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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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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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