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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
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
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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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