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“Do not fear mistakes - there are none.”

Miles Davis
Fear

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

Miles Davis
Good Morning , Life , Future

“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.”

Miles Davis

During an interview, after growing aggravated about questions on the subject of race.
1980s
Source: Jet (25 March 1985)

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

Miles Davis

On being called a legend.
Quoted in International Herald Tribune (17 July 1991); also in: [The Yale Book of Quotations, Fred R., Shapiro, Yale University Press, 2006, 9780300107982, 189]
1990s

“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them…I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”

Miles Davis

About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review, 1958; Quotes in Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr (2009) Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, p. 18.
1950s

Music , Guy , Thinking