Quote

In music, silence is more important than sound.

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
Important
Silence
Sound
Experience
Music

More quotes by Miles Davis

Image
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
Miles Davis
Image
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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
Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.
Miles Davis
Image
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
Miles Davis
Image
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
Miles Davis
Image
When we edit the music, I always remember, It's my band. Save me a place to play.
Miles Davis
Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
Miles Davis
Image
There are no wrong notes.
Miles Davis
Image
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis
Image
Always listen for what you can leave out.
Miles Davis
Image
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Miles Davis
Image
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
Miles Davis
Image
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
Miles Davis
Image
Lionel [Richie] said, Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums.
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 can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
Miles Davis
Image
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Miles Davis