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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.

Miles Davis

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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
MILES DAVIS

Oneself People Question Sound Time
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
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
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS

Appearance Care Himself Myself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner

My ego only needs a good rhythm section.

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