I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
MILES DAVISI’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
MILES DAVISMusic is an addiction.
MILES DAVISJazz 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 DAVISGood music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVISYou should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVISI used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
MILES DAVISI never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVISDo not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
MILES DAVISI’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVISAnybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVISI ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
MILES DAVISIn other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
MILES DAVISHe sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
MILES DAVISIf 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 DAVISI always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVIS