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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
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
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman 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
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
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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