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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

Miles Davis

My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
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
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
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
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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

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