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
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes.… — 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
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean? — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice… — 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 mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You… — 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
![“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)