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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

Miles Davis

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
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
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
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
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
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
MILES DAVIS

Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
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

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