Miles Davis Famous Quotes
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
"That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it."
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis Quotations
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."
Phyllis Diller
"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing."
Andrea Canaan
"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
George Eliot
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Kahlil Gibran
"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
James Grover Thurber
"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."
Jean de La Fontaine
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."
Frederick Buechner
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese
Charles De Gaulle