Miles Davis Quotes

A painting is music you can see, and music is a painting you can hear.

It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.'

See, music is about style.

I’ll play it and tell you what it is later.

For me, music and life are all about style.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo.

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

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

A 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 because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

I love Pops, I love the way he sings, the way he plays - everything he does, except when he says something against modern-jazz music.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section.

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