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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.

Miles Davis

Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
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
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself

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