American music Quote by Cassandra Wilson

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

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

— Jan Garbarek

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

— Ice T

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

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