218 Quotes by Miles Davis

"When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others."

"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery"

"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played"

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

"Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it."

"I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later."

"If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked."

"Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money."

"Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?"

"You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians."