Miles Davis quotes
On Jazz
It was a motherfucker. Man, that shit was all up in my body.
On Race
I’m hiring a motherfucker to play, not for what color he is.
I’m all races at once. That’s what fusion was all about, don’t you know, motherfuckers?
On Jimi Hendrix
It’s that goddamned motherfucking ‘Machine Gun.’
On Sarah Vaughn
She was a motherfucker.
On Count Basie
…he was a motherfucker too.
On Ella Fitzgerald
She was a real motherfucker, still is.
On Billy Eckstien
He would cuss and knock a motherfucker out at the drop of a hat.
On Chick Corea
You a motherfucker.
On Steve Miller
That non-playing motherfucker.
On Kenny G
(shaking head) …motherfucker.
On his musical heroes, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
Goddamn, them motherfuckers was terrible.
On Dizzy Gillespie
Man, he would fuck with that chimpanzee…
To a stranger in an elevator
Get out of my Ferrari, motherfucker.
Miles Davis on Miles Davis
Couldn’t-play-trumpet-as-well-as-Dizzy motherfucker, but a motherfucker nonetheless.
On old age
“One bad Ferrariless motherfucker”
