Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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