I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn’t happening before they found out about it – which most times is always late, and they didn’t have nothing to do with it happening. Then, they try to take all the credit, try to cut everybody black out.

— Miles Davis

Miles Davis Quotes

Music is an addiction.

— Miles Davis
Music

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

— Miles Davis

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

— Miles Davis

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.

— Miles Davis

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.

— Miles Davis

A legend is an old man with a cane...

— Miles Davis

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.

— Miles Davis

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.

— Miles Davis

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He’s still a nice young man, only confused.

— Miles Davis

If you got up on the bandstand at Minton’s and couldn’t play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

— Miles Davis

I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.

— Miles Davis

But you’ve got to have style in whatever you do – writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.

— Miles Davis

When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn’t have no time after that for nothing else.

— Miles Davis

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

— Miles Davis

See, music is about style.

— Miles Davis

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn’t happening before they found out about it – which most times is always late, and they didn’t have nothing to do with it happening. Then, they try to take all the credit, try to cut everybody black out.

— Miles Davis

Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.

— Miles Davis

Naw, I wasn’t going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn’t call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that’s what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.

— Miles Davis

I’m a fiend when it comes to good pastry, and the French make the best as far as I’m concerned.

— Miles Davis

The metric system ruined me.

— Miles Davis
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