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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.

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, Museums, Glasses
Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Miles Davis
Music, Trying, Hips

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.

Miles Davis
Music, Space, Perfect
Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Miles Davis
Music, Blue, Done

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

Miles Davis
Music, Way, Hearing

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

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Music, Taught, Jazz
Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

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Music, Guitar, Sound

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

Miles Davis
Music, Festivals, Next

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.

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.

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

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