218 Quotes by Miles Davis

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

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

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?

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

As long as I’ve been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.

It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.

We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.