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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.

Miles Davis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
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
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself

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