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If you understood everything I said, you'd be me — Miles Davis

Always listen for what you can leave out. — Miles Davis

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. — Miles Davis

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. — Miles Davis

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. — Miles Davis

I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more. — Gilbert Gottfried

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible. — Miles Davis

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road. — Barry Hannah

My ego only needs a good rhythm section — Miles Davis

I'm a fiend when it comes to good pastry, and the French make the best as far as I'm concerned. — Miles Davis

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like. — Oprah Winfrey

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing. — Miles Davis

Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself. — Miles Davis

To keep creating you have to be about change. — Miles Davis

You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. — Miles Davis

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal. — Michael Moriarty

If you don't know what to play, play nothing. — Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself. — Miles Davis

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. — Miles Davis

Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors. — Miles Davis

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played — Miles Davis

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. — Mohamed ElBaradei

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. — Miles Davis

When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn't have no time after that for nothing else. — Miles Davis

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. — Robert Quine

I'll play it and tell you what it is later. — Miles Davis

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis

Play what you know and then play above that — Miles Davis

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. — Christopher Moore

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention. — Miles Davis

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. — Miles Davis

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader. — Stefon Harris

When you're creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit. — Miles Davis

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. — Steve Lukather

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. — Miles Davis

WE WERE ALL UP IN THAT SHIT LIKE A MUTHAFUCKA. IT'S CLEANER THAN A BROKE DICK DOG. — Miles Davis

Always look ahead, but never look back. — Miles Davis

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis