Miles Davis Quotes

I love classical jazz.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I'm a great jazz fan.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

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.

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.