"It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong." — Miles Davis, American trumpet player, born 1926
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." — Miles Davis, American trumpet player, born 1926
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it." — Miles Davis, American trumpet player, born 1926
"A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear." — Miles Davis, American trumpet player, born 1926
"If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted." — Miles Davis, American trumpet player, born 1926
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food." — Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer, born 1925
"One cell contains a digitally coded database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together." — Richard Dawkins, English evolutionary biologist, born 1941
"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers." — Doris Day, American actress, born 1922
"You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know when it's right." — Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897