If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

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

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

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.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

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.

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

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

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

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Drummers sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

If you love em in the morning with their eyes full of crust if you love em at night with their hair full of rollers chances are youre in love.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

A legend is an old man with a cane.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

There are no wrong notes.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

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.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

Right now you can cry to your hearts content. But trust me, someday you will wake and forget about him.

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

Every draw's a tough draw.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Football (soccer) is the poetry of motion.

Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.