I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean? — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have… — 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
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
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
If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain,"… — 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… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things… — 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
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't -… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the… — 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
![“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 completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91f/miles-davis-1842_balanced_sometimes-playing-free-doesn-t-happen-be_657307.jpg)
![“I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aed/miles-davis-1842_apes_i-don-t-hold-it-against-dizzy-gillespie_1460081.jpg)
![“If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/637/miles-davis-1842_able_if-you-make-a-suggestion-and-musicians-d_502009.jpg)
![“I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/094/miles-davis-1842_behinds_i-put-all-those-synthesizer-sounds-behin_1039125.jpg)
![“I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b64/miles-davis-1842_ems_i-can-hear-what-i-want-people-to-play-if_2194818.jpg)
![“[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fa/miles-davis-1842_dukes_prince-could-very-well-be-the-duke-ellin_142140.jpg)