Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. — Miroslav Vitous 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
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
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
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 and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things. — John Gourley 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
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and… — Meshell Ndegeocello 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
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
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more… — Sonny Sharrock 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
“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
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
“His performance was also intensely visual, with his volatile movements in front of the piano, and his cries and wild vocal accompaniment… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
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
[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like… — Jon Gordon 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
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
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
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 wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him. — Rip Torn Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
![“I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.” quote by Freddie Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/freddie-hubbard-25585_caught_i-used-to-try-to-play-like-miles-davis-a_232770.png)
![“[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/jon-gordon-1655_band_my-mother-told-me-stories-about-nat-king_1548773.png)
