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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

Miles Davis

If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
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 don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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?
MILES DAVIS

Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Win Yourself

Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

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