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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

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
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave

With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

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