The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVISThe way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVISAlways look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVISIn Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVISDrummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISYou know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVISDon’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVISWe don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
MILES DAVISIf you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISMy future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVISIf I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
MILES DAVISWe’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVISI like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVISI’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVISWhen kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
MILES DAVIS