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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I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
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I'll play it and tell you what it is later.
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Music is an addiction.
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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
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You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
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Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
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I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
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I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.