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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

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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 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
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
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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