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In music, silence is more important than sound.

Miles Davis

If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
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
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See 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
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong

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