Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis IIIwas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. With his ever-changing directions in music, Davis was at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz over his five-decade career...
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth26 May 1926
CityAlton, IL
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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The judges will award points based on the creative use of materials and related themes - it is amazing how the teams engineer and construct machines in so many different and imaginative ways to perform the same task.