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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

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
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
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
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Play Slow Speed Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
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 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

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