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For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
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
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
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known

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