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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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Death Music Pieces
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking 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’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run 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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