Musician

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

I have to change. It's like a curse.

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

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

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

For me, music and life are all about style.

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

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

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

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

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

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

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

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.

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.