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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

Miles Davis

You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
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
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
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
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play 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
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

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