Miles Davis Quotations

Music is an addiction.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

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.

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

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

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.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

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.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.