Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVISBebop 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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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There are no wrong notes.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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