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

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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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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 think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself

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