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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.

Miles Davis

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
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
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
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
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
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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow 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 future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman 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
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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 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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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
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
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
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
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking 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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