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

Miles Davis

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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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
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 have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
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
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
Bebop 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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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
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
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself

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

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