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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Miles Davis

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
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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 the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
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 can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself

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