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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.

Miles Davis

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVIS

Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
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
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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 the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence

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