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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Miles Davis

When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
MILES DAVIS

Children Heritage History Learning Ourselves Story
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
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Father Myself Play Suffering
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Comfortable Feeling Known
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Best Lips Myself Play
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
It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Change Creation Safety Stand Yourself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
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
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Love Music Myself Play Quit
Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Food Mindset Myself
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Afraid Errors Inspirational Mistake Perspective

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

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