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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.

Miles Davis

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Attitude Character Musician Play
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
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
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous

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