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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.

Miles Davis

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

Instrument Person Play Yourself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
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
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word

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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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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