Quotes About Music

I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

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.

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

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

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

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

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

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

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.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

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

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.

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

It's called 'Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness,' and it's about Miles Davis, the genius, and why he was the way he was, and how he changed music so many times. He changed music six times. So, I'm excited about that movie.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

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

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.

I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.