218 Quotes by Miles Davis

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

The judges will award points based on the creative use of materials and related themes - it is amazing how the teams engineer and construct machines in so many different and imaginative ways to perform the same task.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

Music is an addiction.

Music is the framework around the silence.

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.