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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Miles Davis

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
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
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win 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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
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
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play
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
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time

Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

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