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Music is the framework around the silence.

Miles Davis

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
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.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed 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
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
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
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
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time 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
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing 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
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking 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’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

Music is the framework around the silence.

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