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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Miles Davis

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
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
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
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
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
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’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
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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