218 Quotes by Miles Davis

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

"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best."

"Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around."

"Always look ahead, but never look back."

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

"Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet."

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."

"...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town."

"I'll play it and tell you what it is later."