Miles Davis

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

Play what you know and then play above that.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

If you’re trying to be hip, be hip!

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

Music is an addiction.

If my own work had more importance than any others, it’s because the piano is the key instrument in music.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Don’t bullshit, just play.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don’t have to worry about anything.

I’ve always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

I love to hear the note sing.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.