People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a… — 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
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
Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain,"… — 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
I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords… — 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
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing… — 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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