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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

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
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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
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
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music

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