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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Miles Davis

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
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
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
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
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
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

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