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
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to… — 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 did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from… — 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
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You… — 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
Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean? — 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
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
That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I… — 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
![“It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d10/miles-davis-1842_computers_it-s-like-swimmin-without-warmin-up-yuo_1038336.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 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)
![“That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/969/miles-davis-1842_car_that-s-the-way-you-judge-a-car-man-good_2559520.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)