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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Miles Davis

Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
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
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing

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