I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it. - Miles Davis

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

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

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.

I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?