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 play horns
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
play people might
If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.
years play like-you
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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.
play guy together
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
play guitar band
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
play white ems
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
play ballads heard
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
play jazz coltrane
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
funny mean player
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
player men ego
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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.
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.
play now-and-then knows
Play what you know and then play above that