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In music, silence is more important than sound.

Miles Davis

For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind 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
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play 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
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 like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
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
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective

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