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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Miles Davis

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
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
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

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