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

Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
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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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
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
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
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
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

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

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