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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.

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
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Unknown Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Forward Future Past See
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
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
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Musician Myself Play Time
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music Play Sadness White
He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Oneself People Question Sound Time
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself

I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.

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