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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

Miles Davis

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
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
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
There are no wrong notes.
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Music Notes One Liner Wrong
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Old Reason Tired Writing 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
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
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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Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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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Art Greatness Music Play
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
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

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