Miles Davis

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light. Then I’m grateful.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

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

I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Music is an addiction.

Jazz music has got to have that thing. You have to be born with it. You can’t even buy it. If you could buy it, they’d have it at the next Newport festival.

Music is like wine, the less you know about it the sweeter you like it. 

Dog spelled backward is God. That’s pretty heavy.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

The reward for playing Jazz is playing Jazz.

That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!

I’m not playing for other musicians. We’re trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We’ll keep him happy.

As a little kid, blues meant hope, excitement, pure emotion. Blues were about feelings. They seem to bring out the feelings of the artist and they brought out my feelings as a kid. They made me wanna move, or sing, or pick up Reverend’s guitar and figure out how to make those wonderful sounds.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

Anyone who doesn’t give [his debut album, The College Dropout] a perfect score is lowering the integrity of the magazine

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Music activates the brain at a high level.

There’s only one bass player in a band. I’m the best bass player of any band I’m in.

I don’t like recording studios – except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.