Quote #2

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

More from Miles Davis

  1. 'For me, music and life are all about style.'
  2. 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…
  3. 'If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.'
  4. 'A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.'
  5. 'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'
  6. 'Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!'
  7. 'You a motherfucker.'
  8. 'He plays like somebody is standing on his foot.'

All Miles Davis quotes