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

Miles Davis

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
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
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
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
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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 takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time 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
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself

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