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They [police] do me like that all the time! What you work for?.

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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
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You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.
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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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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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You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.
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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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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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