Quote #20

'Don't play what's there, play what's not there.'

More from Miles Davis

  1. 'It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.''
  2. 'Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth.'
  3. 'When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit.'
  4. 'My ego only needs a good rhythm section.' On being asked what he looked for in musicians.
  5. 'There are no wrong notes.'
  6. 'Listen baby, when I say later, I mean it! Later!'
  7. 'I'll play it and tell you what it is later.'
  8. 'You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.'

All Miles Davis quotes