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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Miles Davis

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
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
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
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Instrument Person Play Yourself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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
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
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave

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