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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.

Miles Davis

For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
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 compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance
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
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown 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 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
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
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
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
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
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
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
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
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

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