218 Quotes by Miles Davis

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.

Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.