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Music is an addiction.

Miles Davis

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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Enjoyment Listening White
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
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
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

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