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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

Miles Davis

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drugs Feeling Music
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
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
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
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
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
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
Play what you know and then play above that
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Instrument Known Music Play Yourself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Entertainment Musician Myself Trying
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Music Myself Name Play
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
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
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
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
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

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