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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
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
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
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
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
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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Music Myself Sell Word
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself

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