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

Miles Davis

Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking 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 notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
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 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
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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

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