My ego only needs a good rhythm section Miles Davis More Quotes by Miles Davis More Quotes From Miles Davis You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four. Miles Davis notesfourplay Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money. Miles Davis menamericaart In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know. Miles Davis sounddressesway Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around. Miles Davis revolutionmusicalbrother My future starts when I wake up every morning. Miles Davis morning-inspirationalgood-morninggood-day It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. Miles Davis notesjazzplay 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--? Miles Davis whitediscoveryamerica I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. Miles Davis legendsmilesdone Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up. Miles Davis shut-upphonesanswers You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads. Miles Davis jazzmusiccauses To keep creating you have to be about change. Miles Davis creatingjazzmusic 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 anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead. Miles Davis white-manmenmean 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 musicplayfather I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands. Miles Davis musicplayway At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. Miles Davis one-daygivingyears Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. Miles Davis musickindmatter Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! Miles Davis heroinjazzmusic I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap. Miles Davis rockskidsyears I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday. Miles Davis playbirdnight 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 listen five minutes and understand it? Miles Davis practiceplayyears
