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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.

Miles Davis

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
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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 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 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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
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
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
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
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
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
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand

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