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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Miles Davis

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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
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 can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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
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
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
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
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence

I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

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