Quote

There are no wrong notes.

Miles Davis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Recording Artist
Songwriter
Television Actor
Alton
Illinois
Miles Dewey Davis III
Miles Dewey Davis
III Davis
Music
Notes
Wrong

More quotes by Miles Davis

Image
Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.
Miles Davis
Image
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis
Image
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
Miles Davis
Image
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
Miles Davis
Image
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Miles Davis
Image
The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
Miles Davis
Image
I said to [Lionel] Richie, Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs.
Miles Davis
Image
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
Miles Davis
Image
If you had to call it unison, it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than unison, it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.
Miles Davis
Image
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
Miles Davis
Image
I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.
Miles Davis
Image
I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
Miles Davis
Image
I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.
Miles Davis
Image
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
Miles Davis
Image
Sometimes, if you ask people to go downstairs and get me this or that, they'll say, It's rainin or It might rain, or There's some bumpy roads on the road, or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, Damn, you did that?
Miles Davis
Image
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
Miles Davis
Image
I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
Miles Davis
Image
In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Miles Davis
Image
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
Image
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Miles Davis