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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.

Miles Davis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
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
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Eat Win Yourself
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
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
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 a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Art Man Sacrifice Trust Woman Yourself

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