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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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play 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
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
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
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning 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 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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening 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
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!

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