For me, music and life are all about style.

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

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

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.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.