Miles Davis Quotes about Jazz

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

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

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

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

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

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

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

I still got my Ferrari.

Music is an addiction.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

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