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When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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