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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.

Miles Davis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
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
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’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

Call Known Legend Music Myself
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone

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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