Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My 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 Davis Copy Share Image
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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