Miles Davis Quotes, Thoughts and Image

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

In music, silence is more important than sound.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Music is the framework around the silence.

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

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

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

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

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

To keep creating you have to be about change.

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

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

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

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

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

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

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

Always look ahead, but never look back.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

For me, music and life are all about style.

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.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.