218 Quotes by Miles Davis

"In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much."

"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."

"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."

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

"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from."

"I still got my Ferrari."

"It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?"

"I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way."

"Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then."

"Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money."