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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Miles Davis

With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
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 can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See 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
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
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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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself

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