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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

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
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play 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 ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
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
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself

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