218 Quotes by Miles Davis
"I know people get tired of hearing it but black people have got to keep saying it, throwing our conditions up into these people's faces until something is done about the way they have treated us. We've just got to keep it in front of their eyes and their ears like the Jews have done. We've got to make them know and understand just how evil the things are that they did to us over all these years and are still doing to us today."
"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."
"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."
"I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination."
"I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis."
"I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic."
"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."