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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I couldn't do What's Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.
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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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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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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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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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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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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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