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Miles Davis

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
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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Learning Practice Sound Time 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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach 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
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
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
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Himself Musician Myself Person Play Stand
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
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

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