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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
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
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play
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.
MILES DAVIS

Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
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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Instrument Person Play Yourself
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play

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