[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVISIf you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVISWhite folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISI know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVISYou have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVISCertain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISIn Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVISIn music, silence is more important than sound.
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 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 DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISI think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVISKeith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVIS