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Music is an addiction.

Miles Davis

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
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
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Away Listening Music Time
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
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
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
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
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
Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Art Celebrity Form Man Money Musician
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity

Music is an addiction.

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