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Miles Davis

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 have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time 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
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
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
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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Comfortable Music Reason
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong 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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner

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