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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

Miles Davis

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing 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
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
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
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
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner

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