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

Miles Davis

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
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand

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