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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Miles Davis

Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
MILES DAVIS

Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
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
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing

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