You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can… — 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
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a… — 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
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — 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… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — 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
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
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a… — 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
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — 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
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.” — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that… — 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
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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