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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Miles Davis

What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
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
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
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
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
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

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