218 Quotes by Miles Davis

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, “you ought to blow trumpet.” I have just been trying ever since.

Play what you know and then play above that.

I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?

My ego only needs a good rhythm section.

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.

I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.

If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.

You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.