I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play — 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
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
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
“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane… — 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 don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all.… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just… — 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
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
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 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've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but… — 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
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 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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