“I always listen to what I can leave out.”

“I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”

“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”

“After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne tinted with curacao and listened to Miles Davis, and when I asked the name of her perfume, she said it was L'Heure Bleue.She talked about 'perfect moments.' One such moment happened that afternoon; she'd been napping; I lay next to her, reading. She said, 'I'll always remember the sounds of the sea and of pages turning, and the smell of L'Heure Bleue. For me they signify love.”

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me, music and life are all about style.”

“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.”

“Don't play what's there play what's not there.”

“I always listen to what I can leave out.”