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Miles Davis

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
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Best Discrimination Musician Myself White
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
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
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
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
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
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
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Best Blow Domination Game People Run Yourself
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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