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Miles Davis

Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Answer Call Myself Phone
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Art Creation Imitation Innovation Yourself
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
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
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
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
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner

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