Miles DavisIn improvisation, there are no mistakes.374Humor
Miles DavisIt's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. ✨ Biopic Of The Cool: Don Cheadle Channels A Jazz Legend In 'Miles Ahead' by Amy Nicholson, www.mtv.com… ▶375Humanity
Miles DavisDon't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.321Life
Miles DavisIt took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?332Reflection
Miles DavisIf you're trying to be hip, be hip.332Humanity
Miles DavisI 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 they don't know.343Humanity
Miles DavisWhen I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads345Truth
Miles DavisIf you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.324Time
Miles DavisI never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.346DeathReflectionThought
Miles DavisI always listen to what I can leave out.357Sadness
Miles DavisIn music, silence is more important than sound.335Sadness
Miles DavisA lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes beca… ▶292HumanityThoughtTime
Miles DavisMy 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.369Humor
Miles DavisThe way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play292Thought
Miles DavisJoao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.325Reading
Miles DavisThat was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it. 293Truth
Miles DavisMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it. ✨ Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). Miles, p.29, Simon and Schuster326HumorThought
Miles DavisJohn Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive3610Life
Miles DavisDo not fear mistakes. There are none.326Thought
Miles DavisIt's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. ✨ Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). Miles, Simon and Schust… ▶327Thought
Miles DavisIf somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow. ✨ Jet, March 25, 1985.283Humor
Miles Davis...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 new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are… ▶283HumanityThought
Miles DavisI never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that we… ▶3510DeathHumanityReflection
Miles DavisMy future starts when I wake up every morning. ✨ Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). Miles, Simon and Schuster283HopeTime
Miles DavisKnowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery ✨ Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). Miles, p.61, Simon and Schuster327Life
Miles DavisI began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also com… ▶273Truth
Miles DavisWhat'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 anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.284Sadness
Miles DavisColtrane, you cant play everything at once!284Death
Miles DavisI can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.3310Thought
Miles DavisI know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.3310Love
