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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

People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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 like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way 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
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself

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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