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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.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
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We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
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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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