All Miles Davis Quotes
- Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. Anyone
- You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played Armstrong
- Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good. Good
- I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked… All
- 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. Blues
- ...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 the… Black
- I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,… Bach
- Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all… All
- In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much. Bit
- He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no… Asked
- It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to… Expect
- There are no wrong notes. Inspirational
- Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! Blues
- We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences. Addicted
- A legend is an old man with a cane... African American
- We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em. Anymore
- At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. All
- As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. Always Say
- I still got my Ferrari. Ferrari
- Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk… Ass