Miles Davis Quotes (20 Quotes)

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

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

That was my gift ... having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

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 other dead things that were once considered artistic.

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

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.

For me, music and life are all about style.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school . . . But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own histoty and tell our story ourselves.

The judges will award points based on the creative use of materials and related themes - it is amazing how the teams engineer and construct machines in so many different and imaginative ways to perform the same task.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, you ought to blow trumpet. I have just been trying ever since.

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

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

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.