Quote #6

'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'

More from Miles Davis

  1. 'A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.'
  2. 'Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!'
  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. 'You a motherfucker.'
  5. 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…
  6. 'He plays like somebody is standing on his foot.'
  7. 'I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?'
  8. 'He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.'

All Miles Davis quotes