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Miles Davis

I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
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
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself

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