First you imitate, then you innovate. - Miles Davis

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. . . the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. . . . a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you innovate.

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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

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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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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

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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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