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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.

Miles Davis

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance
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
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
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening 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
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
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
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
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
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 don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night 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
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself

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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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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