Miles Quote by Gerry Mulligan

“We know we are very special,” Davis writes in “Special”: “Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not…

— Lydia Davis

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

— Cassandra Wilson

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

— Jan Garbarek

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…

— Don Cheadle

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…

— Henry Rollins

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

— Rip Torn

I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for…

— Mick Harris

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

— Stefon Harris

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why…

— Freddie Hubbard

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me…

— Pat Metheny

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

— Charlie Trotter

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