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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.

Miles Davis

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
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
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
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
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
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 used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.

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