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I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we`re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

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Men have died for this music. You can`t get more serious than that.

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I`d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

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They`re not particular about whether you`re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

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It`s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

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How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don`t you ask him? And besides, maybe we`d all like to be like Miles, and just haven`t got the guts.

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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It`s time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It`s time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

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I don`t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

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I don`t care too much about music. What I like is sounds.

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