If you have to ask, you'll never know. by Miles Davis

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

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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.

music space perfect

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me... by Miles Davis

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

band play remember

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.

records wanted years

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

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

guitar music sound

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."

band reason rooms

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

girlfriend real sweet

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll. by Miles Davis

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

rock-n-roll dukes rocks

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.

music three way

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know. by Miles Davis

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

jazz musician feels

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' a... by Miles Davis

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

chords albums stuff

Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.

eight dollars play

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not t... by Miles Davis

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

machines bills pay

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

tempo gifted knows

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He'... by Miles Davis

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

ballgame sick different

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.

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

studios mean needs

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you'r... by Miles Davis

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

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

jazz musician reason

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.

valentine daughter play