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To keep creating you have to be about change.

Miles Davis

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
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play 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.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word 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
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself

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