Miles Davis Quotes

I finally realized that not only was I passionate about music, but I had a unique way of thinking of music.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

I was born understanding the language of music.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.