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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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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
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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play 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 always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Attention Nervous Pay Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet

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