218 Quotes by Miles Davis

For me, music and life are all about style.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.