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For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis

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
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 love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
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

Instrument Person Play 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
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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance

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