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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.

Miles Davis

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Character Musician Play
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
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.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World

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