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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Miles Davis

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
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music 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
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play 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
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
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
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
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

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

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