Miles Davis Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

• For me, music and life are all about style.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Style, Jazz And Life

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Artist

• Always look ahead, but never look back.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Looks, Jazz

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Jazz

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

  Miles Davis

  Play, Jazz, Notes

  "Biopic Of The Cool: Don Cheadle Channels A Jazz Legend In 'Miles Ahead'" by Amy Nicholson, www.mtv.com. March 30, 2016.

• If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Trying, Hips

• Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Bird, Challenges

  "Miles, the autobiography".

• I still got my Ferrari.

  Miles Davis

  Ferrari, Jazz, Stills

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Pieces

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Swings, Purple

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, African American

  "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Father, Play

• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Glasses

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Causes, Jazz

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

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Revolution

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

  Miles Davis

  Worry, Jazz, Notes

• We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.

  Miles Davis

  Play, White, Ems

• There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

  Miles Davis

  Jazz, Notes

• To keep creating you have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Creating, Jazz

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

  Miles Davis

  Music, Jazz, Understood

• Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

  Miles Davis

  Music, Jazz, Heroin

• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Festivals, Next

• Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Taught, Jazz

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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