Miles Davis Quotes About Music
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I 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 composed that way.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I 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 were once considered artistic.
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If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
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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.
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Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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...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 especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
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I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
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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.
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We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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There are no wrong notes.
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