Miles Davis Quotes

54 Miles Davis quotes by 49 unique authors

Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good… — Don Cheadle
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. — Don Cheadle
Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. — Chino XL
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too… — Jonny Greenwood
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road. — Barry Hannah
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. — Miroslav Vitous
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. — Jan Garbarek
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got… — Phil Collins
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. — Miles Davis
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe… — Lupe Fiasco
Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences… — Herbie Hancock
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond… — Herbie Hancock
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have… — Herbie Hancock
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got… — Ziggy Marley
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same… — Carlos Santana
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
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. — Christopher Moore
The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally,… — Nile Rodgers
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader. — Stefon Harris
No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should… — Paul Weller
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. — Mohamed ElBaradei
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two… — Henry Rollins
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in… — Pat Metheny
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for… — Branford Marsalis

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