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In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.
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It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
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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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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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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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