When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.
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The result is a music that allows us to all go outside the pigeonholes the music business forces us to stay in. We're breaking down expectations, walking the tightrope, while not scaring our fan bases away.Herbie Hancock
Here was this young beautiful black woman that just kind of opened Miles' eyes up.
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Then I would watch him improvise, and I would be fascinated by what he was doing.
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Wisdom corresponds to the future it is philosophy.
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Wisdom is on a higher plane, and as human beings, it's part of our 'being-ness' to have the capacity to manifest wisdom through creativity.
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And jazz is also for the body because it is rhythmic, but it's also for the mind and for the soul, and it is very creative.
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