Miles Davis

"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. "

"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. "

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. "

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

"Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself. "

"That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it. "