218 Quotes by Miles Davis

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me.

Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads.

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.

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

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It’s over; it’s on the record.

I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

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

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