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- If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
- It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
- When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
- 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…
- If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
- That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go;…
- You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
- 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.
- 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…
- We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
- We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
- Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
- If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you…
- The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
- 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.
- You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
- See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he…
- When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
- Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
- Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
- Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
- I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
- I'll play it and tell you what it is later.
- I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
- I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got…
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