Quotes of: Miles-davis Keyword

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

Leonard Slatkin

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

Anton Seidl

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

Zubin Mehta

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Zubin Mehta

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Zubin Mehta

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Chuck D

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Neville Marriner

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Neville Marriner

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Peter Agre

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Riccardo Muti

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

Riccardo Muti

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

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

Leonard Slatkin

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

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

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