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
music nice confused
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
people jazz speak
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
blow trying trumpets
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.
men african-american legends
A legend is an old man with a cane...
errors
Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
years play like-you
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
musical carter ought
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
thinking fifty should
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
sweet sound impossible
You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.
sweet girlfriend real
Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.
play want might
Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
cute mean men
That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
uncles jazz selling
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
white long guy
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.