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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.

Miles Davis

If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVIS

Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
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
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
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
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
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.

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