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Miles Davis

Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
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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Music Play Sadness White
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World

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