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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument 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.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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
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
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

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