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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Death Music Pieces
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
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
I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Myself
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
MILES DAVIS

Father Myself Play Suffering

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