Miles Davis Quotes on Jazz
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The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
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'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'
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'He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.'
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'It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.''