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First you imitate, then you innovate.

Miles Davis

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown 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
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Myself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself

First you imitate, then you innovate.

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