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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Miles Davis

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
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
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
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Follow Musician Revolution
You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Feeling Impossible Sound Time Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand 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
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
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
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
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Challenge Greatness Humanity Recognition Sweet

I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

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