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
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
You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together.… — 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 don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or… — 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
If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep… — 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
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast. — 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
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like… — 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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