Miles Davis Way Quotations

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.

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

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.