Miles Davis

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.

Music is an addiction.

It’s always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don’t know where it comes from, it’s just there and I don’t question it.

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

When you’re creating your own shit, even the sky ain’t the limit.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Love is sweeping the country.

I’m… a rather simple person with a limited talent and perhaps a limited perspective.

I have always seen Jazz as innovative.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing very powerful emotions. That’s what draws people towards it.

There has always been a tension between Jazz as a commercial music and as an art form.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I can’t understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

Play the music not the instrument.

Jazz music is the power of now.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

You explore beautiful songs and create your own interpretation of them.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

[on Prince] I learned about music that didn’t have any barriers or any kind of, like, containment. I learned about wild, crazy topics and ways to express yourself that had never been written in quite that way before. I learned that a human being could be able to defy all stereotypes, and be the epitome of badassness.