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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

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 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
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Greatness Musician Spirit Walk Work Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person 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
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
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’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
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Lyrics Music Myself People Play Writing
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
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
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
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
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Known Label Thinking Yourself
To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Change Creation Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

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