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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Added Blues Chords Coltrane Complex Davis Foundation Gave John John Coltrane Like Made Miles Miles Davis Mix More Much Out People Play Possible Rock Rock N Roll Roll See Started Structure Than Then Three

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I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.

~Byron Allen

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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

~Carlos Santana

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

~Cassandra Wilson

Topics: African Career Davis Every He His Master Miles Miles Davis Muse Music Phase Tribute Understood

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

~Cassandra Wilson

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Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.

~Channing Dungey

Topics: Air Been Boat Brought Continuing Davis Diversity Forward Fresh Having Important Kerry Like Look Off Shows Then Vein Very Viola Washington Way

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I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.

~Charles Bock

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We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

~Charles Kelley

Topics: Big Big Fan Brothers Country Country Singer Dave Davis Definitely Eagles Fan He Her Hillary Influences Like Linda Lynyrd Skynyrd Mine Mom More Most Rock Side Singer Southern Stuff Would

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If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.

~Charles Nelson Reilly

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I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

~Charlie Trotter

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