Audience Quote by Bobby McFerrin

Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking for young…

— Marcus Miller

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great…

— Branford Marsalis

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of…

— Bill Laswell

I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it…

— Ray LaMontagne

[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of…

— Helen Merrill

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne…

— Philip Bailey

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

— Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

— John McLaughlin

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they…

— George Duke

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

— Jan Garbarek

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because…

— Marilyn Manson