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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind 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
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
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
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
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 an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
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
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself

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