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Miles Davis

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
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
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
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous

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