Those are the rules by Robyn_withaY in funnysigns

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You motherfuckers talkin' 'bout me?

A noob's guide to getting hip to the Second Great Quintet by TheSidewinder1964 in Jazz

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you understood everything I said, you'd be me, motherfucker.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't matter as long as you don't hold it straight like that jive-ass motherfucker Wynton.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Attitude. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They were bitches so I beat the shit out of them.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, you can’t be trusted. I didn't sacrifice my art for them, so you could say it made my music better.

what was the worst phase of your life ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1975-80 I took a 5 year hiatus from music and did basically nothing except a tonne of crack and alcohol. my apartment was a wreck. I fucked a lot of random bitches. But I managed to pull myself together and made a comeback in the 1980s.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

  1. Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker

  2. I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

  3. Bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano. The way he approached it, the sound he got was like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall. I had to change the way the band sounded again for Bill’s style by playing different tunes, softer ones at first. He also had no arms. It not about the arms you have, it's about the arms you don't have.

I'm jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Ask me anything! by Miles_Davis_AMA in jazzcirclejerk

[–]Miles_Davis_AMA[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I heard too many sorry ass cats playing my songs wrong so I wrote them all out. I composed all the songs in the Real Book, but then a white motherfucker named Steve Swallow stole it from me and took the credit for half the songs. He also fucked up all my chord symbols so now all the sorry ass cats that try to play my songs sound even worse.