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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know?… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes.… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. — 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
I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can… — 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
The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know,… — 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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