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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

Miles Davis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed 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
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
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.
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Music Myself Sell Word
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance

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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