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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

Miles Davis

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
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
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

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