Miles Davis Quotes - Page 7

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• Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

  Miles Davis

  Stuff, Albums, Chords

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Nephew, Musician

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Machines, Use

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

  Miles Davis

  Drummer

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Perfect, Machines, Used

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

  Miles Davis

  Musician, Want, Brilliant

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Guitar, America

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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

  Miles Davis

  Police

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

  Miles Davis

  Play, Band, Remember

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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

  Years, Records, Wanted

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

  Miles Davis

  Band, Rooms, Reason

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Confused, Nice

  " Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism" by Philip Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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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.

  Miles Davis

  White, Long, Guy

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Three, Way

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

  Miles Davis

  Want, Drummer

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

  Miles Davis

  Sick, Different, Ballgame

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Needs, Studios

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Gifted, Tempo, Knows

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Two, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."

  Miles Davis

  Writing, Together, Want

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know, because of the big explosion. You'll like it. It's a nice album.

  Miles Davis

  Nice, Albums, Records

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

  Miles Davis

  Daughter, Valentine, Play

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Guy, Littles

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Play, People, Ems

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

  Miles Davis

  Musical, Carter, Ought

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