Miles Davis Quotes

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

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

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.

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?

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

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.