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I always listen to what I can leave out.

Miles Davis

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Character Musician Play
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Myself
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
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
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
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVIS

Greatness Human Sound Voice World

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