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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.

Miles Davis

He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand 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
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Feeling Known
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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVIS

Acceptance Mistake Yourself
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.

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