Always listen for what you can leave out.

- Miles Davis

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

- Miles Davis

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

- Miles Davis

In music, silence is more important than sound.

- Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you innovate.

- Miles Davis

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

- Miles Davis

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

- Miles Davis

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

- Miles Davis

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

- Miles Davis