Davis Quotes

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

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

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

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

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.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

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.

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

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

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.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.