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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

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
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
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
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
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
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
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
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
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
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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