218 Quotes by Miles Davis

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

If you’re trying to be hip, be hip.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

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.

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.

The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.

What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.

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