Miles Davis Quotes

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

If 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.

Do not fear mistakes - there are none.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.

I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." and "I love Pops" (Louis' nickname) … Louis has been through all kinds of styles. That's good tuba, by the way. You know you can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played — I mean even modern. I love his approach to the trumpet; he never sounds bad. He plays on the beat — with feeling. That's another phrase for swing. I also love the way he sings.

I know what the power of silence is. When I used to play in clubs, everybody was loud; there was a lot of noise. So I would take my mute off the microphone, and I would play something so soft that you could hardly hear it... and you talk about listening. Roy Eldridge did that. He's one of my favorites.

El conocimiento, el saber, es libertad, mientras que la ignorancia es esclavitud, y yo, simplemente, no podía creer que alguien estuviera tan cerca de la libertad y no se aprovechase de su buena suerte.

When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

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.

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?