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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
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You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.
Miles Davis
Music is the framework around the silence.
Miles Davis
When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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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.
Miles Davis
Always look ahead, but never look back.
Miles Davis
When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
Miles Davis
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
Miles Davis
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Miles Davis
I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
Miles Davis
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Miles Davis
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
Miles Davis
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
Miles Davis
