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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

Miles Davis

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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play 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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
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
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

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

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