Musicians Feel Quotes by Miles Davis

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

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

— Miles Davis

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

— Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes.

— Miles Davis

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

— Miles Davis

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

...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

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

— Miles Davis

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

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

— Miles Davis

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

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

— Miles Davis