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. (Miles Davis)
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others. (Miles Davis)
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. (Miles Davis)
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. (Miles Davis)
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. (Miles Davis)
I'll play it and tell you what it is later. (Miles Davis)
I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all other dead things that were once considered artistic. (Miles Davis)
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. (Miles Davis)
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. (Miles Davis)
For me, music and life are all about style. (Miles Davis)
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. (Miles Davis)
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. (Miles Davis)
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. (Miles Davis)
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. (Miles Davis)
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school . . . But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own histoty and tell our story ourselves. (Miles Davis)