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 museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
art play band
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.
mean thinking white
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?
brother musical revolution
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
sweet bird humanity
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.
music hype white
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
good-morning good-day morning-inspirational
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
style music-and-life jazz-and-life
For me, music and life are all about style.
food mind sluggish
Food makes my mind sluggish.
jazz notes
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
practice long sound
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself
best-love morning eye
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.
play way helping
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play