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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.

Miles Davis

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.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening 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.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
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
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
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong

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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