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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
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
With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
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
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
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
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
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
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

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