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

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself

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.

For me, music and life are all about style.