Miles Davis Quotes
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Miles Davis Quotes & Sayings
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There are no wrong notes.
— Miles Davis
If you understood everything I said, you'd be me
— Miles Davis
Always listen for what you can leave out.
— Miles Davis
In music, silence is more important than sound.
— Miles Davis
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
— Herb Alpert
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
— Miles Davis
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
— Miles Davis
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.
— Donovan Bailey
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
— Jonny Greenwood
I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.
— Gilbert Gottfried
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?
— Miles Davis
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
— Miles Davis
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
— Miles Davis
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
— Barry Hannah
My ego only needs a good rhythm section
— Miles Davis
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
— Miles Davis
I always listen to what I can leave out.
— Miles Davis
I'm a fiend when it comes to good pastry, and the French make the best as far as I'm concerned.
— Miles Davis
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.
— Oprah Winfrey
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
— Miles Davis
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
— Miles Davis
For me, music and life are all about style.
— Miles Davis
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.
— Kieran Hebden
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
— Miles Davis
Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.
— Miles Davis
To keep creating you have to be about change.
— Miles Davis
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
— Miles Davis
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
— Miles Davis
My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
— Michael Moriarty
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
— Miles Davis
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
— Miles Davis
I throw 70 miles an hour. That's throwing like a girl.
— Mo'ne Davis
Don't play what's there; play what's not there.
— Miles Davis
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.
— Miles Davis
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Do not fear mistakes - there are none.
— Miles Davis
First you imitate, then you innovate.
— Miles Davis
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
— Cassandra Wilson
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
— Miles Davis
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
— Miroslav Vitous
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
— Miles Davis
Music is the framework around the silence.
— Miles Davis
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
— Miles Davis
When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn't have no time after that for nothing else.
— Miles Davis
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
— Miles Davis
Play what you know and then play above that
— Miles Davis
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
— Christopher Moore
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
— Miles Davis
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
— Miles Davis
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.
— Stefon Harris
Always look ahead, but never look back.
— Miles Davis
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
— Miles Davis
But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.
— Miles Davis
You can't eat a winner's plaque.
— Miles Davis
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
— Charlie Trotter
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
— Miles Davis
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
— Don Cheadle
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
— Ted King
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
— Michael Connelly
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
— Miles Davis
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
— Miles Davis
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
— Gerry Mulligan
Food makes my mind sluggish.
— Miles Davis
