Quote #5

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

More from Miles Davis

  1. '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.'
  2. 'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'
  3. 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…
  4. 'Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!'
  5. 'I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?'
  6. 'You a motherfucker.'
  7. 'For me, music and life are all about style.'
  8. 'He plays like somebody is standing on his foot.'

All Miles Davis quotes