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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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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
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed 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
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
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World

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