For me, music and life are all about style. — Miles Davis · Smartyfair

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For me, music and life are all about style. — Miles Davis · Smartyfair

For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis1926–1991 · musician · 1900s USAMiles Davis was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who reinvented jazz several times over his long career, always searching for a new sound.1 quote

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How you do a thing is part of what makes it yours.

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What turned up: From Miles: The Autobiography (Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, 1989).
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 21 August 2026Quotes section, sourced to his 1989 autobiography

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