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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Miles Davis

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
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
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time

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