Miles Davis Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Miles Davis
Miles Davis Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Miles Davis on Wise Famous Quotes.
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
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.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people's shit?
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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.
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.
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.
When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn't have no time after that for nothing else.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.