What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He… — 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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