All Miles Davis Quotes
- Coltrane, you cant play everything at once! Cant
- I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much… Bops
- If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you… Ass
- Keith, how does it feel to be a genius? Doe
- The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play Change
- I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since. Been
- John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive Alive
- I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. Best
- In music, silence is more important than sound. Experience
- Food makes my mind sluggish. Food
- What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask… Always Feel
- My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every Morning
- It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. Afterwards
- You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four. Four
- Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none. Afraid
- It takes a long time to sound like yourself. Long
- See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he… All
- It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--? America
- When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast. Band
- Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop… Day