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Miles Davis

To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
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.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
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
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
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
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner

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