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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.
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say rock. Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him soul. They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.
Miles Davis
I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
Miles Davis
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
Miles Davis
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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
Miles Davis
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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.
Miles Davis
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
Miles Davis
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
Miles Davis
Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
Miles Davis
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Miles Davis
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
Miles Davis
I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
Miles Davis
