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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.

Miles Davis

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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational 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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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
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
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
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
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play 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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself

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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