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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.

Miles Davis

Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown 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
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
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
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
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
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
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself

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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