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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

Miles Davis

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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
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 in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
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
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music Myself Sell Word
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
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
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
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Appearance Care Himself Myself
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
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
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Creation Finding Future Life Myself Start Thinking
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
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
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
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Finding Music Notes Oneself Play Worry
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

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