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Miles Davis

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
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
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand 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
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
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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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
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
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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself

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