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 DAVISIn improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVISI 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.
MILES DAVISYou should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVISYou have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVISI think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVISDon’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVISIf you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVISIt’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVISI’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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 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 DAVISIf you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
MILES DAVISMusic is an addiction.
MILES DAVISYou can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVISI don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVIS