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

Miles Davis

That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
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
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
MILES DAVIS

Play Slow Speed Yourself
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
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
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Play Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself

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

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