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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

Miles Davis

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
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself

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