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

Miles Davis

Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
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
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 you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
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
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
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
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking 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
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
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

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