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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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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
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
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
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
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
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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Answer Call Myself Phone
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
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
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
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself

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