Davis: "Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

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

Davis: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

Davis: "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."

Davis: "I have to change. It's like a curse."

Davis: "When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest."

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."

Davis: "Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!"

Davis: "When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in."

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

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."

Davis: "You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear."

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