Share this sentence
— Miles Davis"I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.
— Emo Philips
Next Quote
You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
— Richard Pryor
Loading recommended content...