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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

Miles Davis

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
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
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
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
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’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

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