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
phones answers shut-up
Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
music play way
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
technology thinking people
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.
thinking play pay
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.
music silence framework
Music is the framework around the silence.
ignorance slavery
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
music play audience
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
play firsts figures
I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.
art men america
Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
music men should
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
mean men white-man
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.
life music beautiful
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
attention nervous pay-attention
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
art sacrifice men
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.