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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.

Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Be Yourself Musician Play Time
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
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Known Play Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Idol Inspirational Myself
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
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Myself Understand Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Sound Time Yourself
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
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
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Heart Known Musician Person Play Yourself
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
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.
MILES DAVIS

Imagination Myself Patience People Play
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
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself

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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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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