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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.

Miles Davis

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
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win 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
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
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
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way

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