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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.

Miles Davis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVIS

Follow Musician Revolution
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
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
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning 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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time

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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