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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Miles Davis

Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
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
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
MILES DAVIS

Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVIS

Acceptance Mistake Yourself

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

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