Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions..

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it..

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go..

If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top..

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame..

You can tell when you're in a hit..

The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed..

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all..

You don't take on anything unless there's fear..

I don't really get recognized..

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside..

I love to be called Doc..

What you see from here is not what you see from there..

I could only destroy to build..

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer..

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect..

We are generally punished by where we have sinned..

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball i….

The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. ….

Oh, I don't talk about God..