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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.

Miles Davis

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown 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
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself

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