I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISI know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISWith “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
MILES DAVISYou can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISIt took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
MILES DAVISDon’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVISThe only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
MILES DAVISI always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISDrummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISIf 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.
MILES DAVISIn improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISKeith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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 DAVISBebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
MILES DAVISIt takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS