Quotes from Miles Davis

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

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.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

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

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Music is the framework around the silence.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

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.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.