As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory.… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I like music where it can be taken in at many levels, as far as the emotions behind it. Somebody like Miles… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
“After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Miles Davis came in a couple of days and said, "Oh, man, I love that. Keep going." So he said, "Let me… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row -… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African… — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis -… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Because of my register, Miles Davis' trumpet playing has always been a big influence on my singing. I've always been intrigued by… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them… — Jose James Copy Share Image
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick,… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
