Miles Davis Quotes

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 heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley

Great, Leader, Against

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 time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana

Time, Mother, Same

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T

Understand, Player, Jazz

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 me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
Phil Collins

Him, Else, Touch

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Miles Davis

Music, Done, Call

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
Dave Brubeck

Great, Future, Hard

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 time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
Don Cheadle

Music, Time, Good

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

Life, Trying, Wanted

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch

Poetry, Beautiful, Play

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 what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
Branford Marsalis

Great, Him, Else

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan

Songs, Miles, Writes

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
Herb Alpert

Guys, Miles, Davis

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
Charlie Watts

Beautiful, Else, Whole

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Music, Care, Hero

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
Bobby McFerrin

Music, Stage, Audience

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

Him, Friends, Used

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
Miroslav Vitous

Everything, Play, After

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
Robert Quine

Through, Playing, Started

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.
Donovan Bailey

Love, Music, Enjoy

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

Wanted, Road, Practice

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
Chick Corea

Life, Career, Him

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
Bill Laswell

Himself, Side, Jazz

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

Music, Career, Master

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

Music, American, Jazz

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

Moving, Same, Else

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Isabel Wilkerson

Parents, Country, Able

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.
Trombone Shorty

Time, Keep, Playing

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