I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISI always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVISKnowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVISWhite folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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 music, silence is more important than sound.
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 DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISMy 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 DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISJazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVISA legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
MILES DAVISI’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVISGood music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVISSome musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVISPlay what you know and then play above that
MILES DAVIS