I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Music is the silence between the notes.
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.
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.
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.