You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody… — 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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