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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.

Miles Davis

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play 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
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
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
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
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
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’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
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
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
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 don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White

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