Miles Davis

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo.

WE WERE ALL UP IN THAT SHIT LIKE A MUTHAFUCKA. IT'S CLEANER THAN A BROKE DICK DOG.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Music is an addiction.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

Why'd you put that white bitch on there?