Miles Davis

I don't care if you like me or not, I'm playing for myself.

I don't need no white man to tell me how to play my music.

I'm always trying to find something new. I'm not interested in repeating myself.

Why play twenty notes when you can play one note and mean it?

I don't want to be a jazz musician. I just want to be a musician.

I don't like to play for white people. They don't understand.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played.

I don't want to be remembered for my past. I want to be remembered for what I'm doing now.

I don't like to be called a jazz musician. I'm a musician.

I don't care what people think. I just do what I want to do.

I don't like to be put in a box. I like to be free.

I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do my own thing.

I don't like to be predictable. I like to be surprising.

I don't like to be boring. I like to be exciting.

I don't like to be safe. I like to take risks.

I don't like to be comfortable. I like to be challenged.

I don't like to be understood. I like to be mysterious.

I don't like to be defined. I like to define myself.

I don't like to be limited. I like to be limitless.

I don't like to be ordinary. I like to be extraordinary.