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For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis

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
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
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
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
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind 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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
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
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time

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