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

Miles Davis

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
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed 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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
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.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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
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
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVIS

Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself

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