Folks Quote by Rip Torn

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was…

— Prince

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

— John McLaughlin

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

— Debbie Reynolds

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became…

— Debbie Reynolds

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on…

— Chick Corea

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know,…

— Kanye West

I appreciate Al Davis and the Davis family a lot.

— Sebastian Janikowski

Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview, I would…

— Peter Weller

[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

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I became real good friends with John Stockton and Karl Malone and am still good friends with them to this day. It was always…

— Gary Payton

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

— Kevin Sessums