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Music is an addiction.

Miles Davis

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
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
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
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
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
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
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Myself Rhythm Writing
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

Music is an addiction.

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