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
book school kids
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
night play bird
I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.
music men artist
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
mean play way
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
funny humor winner
You can't eat a winner's plaque.
beautiful strong wall
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.
hype people enough
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype....
play now-and-then knows
Play what you know and then play above that
long sound like-you
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
i-can
I always listen to what I can leave out.
music trying hips
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
music play african-american
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
mistake improvisation
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
stupid people bops
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.