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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Miles Davis

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS

Appearance Care Himself Myself
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
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time 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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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 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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand

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