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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

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Yourself
What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Comfortable Music Reason
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Instrument Play Yourself
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Leave Listening Yourself
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Music Play
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Fear Instrument Mistake Musician None One Liner
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Known Man Myself Old
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
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
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
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
Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Afraid Inspirational Mistake
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Known Myself Woman
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 think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Greatness Human Sound Voice World
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective
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 can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Horn Instrument Play Yourself
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Instrument Musician Oneself Thankful
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
For me, music and life are all about style.
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Life Music Style
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
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
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Thinking Tolerance

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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