It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean? — 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
That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker.… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I… — 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
...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
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
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
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
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself — Miles Davis Copy Share
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
...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
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
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. — Miles Davis Copy Share
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
![“Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8a/miles-davis-1842_drop_some-of-drummers-drop-time-because-they_2499728.jpg)
![“I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/miles-davis-1842_ems_i-can-hear-what-i-want-people-to-play-if_2194818.jpg)
![“I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/miles-davis-1842_behinds_i-put-all-those-synthesizer-sounds-behin_1039125.jpg)
![“Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a48/miles-davis-1842_dave_dave-holland-plays-the-way-he-wants-to-p_3007407.jpg)
![“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. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a79/miles-davis-1842_brilliant_i-don-t-wanna-talk-about-teo-macero-he-s_3007056.jpg)
![“If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/miles-davis-1842_able_if-you-make-a-suggestion-and-musicians-d_502009.jpg)
![“I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aed/miles-davis-1842_apes_i-don-t-hold-it-against-dizzy-gillespie_1460081.jpg)