Quotes of: Davis Keyword

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Ted King

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

Kevin Eubanks

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

Lleyton Hewitt

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Leonard Slatkin

I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

Mary Docter

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

Miroslav Vitous

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Kevin Eubanks

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Alonzo Mourning

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

Daniel Kahneman

People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they're going to buy a car, they're more concerned about whether they have a job and...

David Malpass

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivative...

Otto Wallach

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham

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

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

Daniel Barenboim

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

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Eugene Ormandy

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

Eugene Ormandy

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Chuck Mangione