Will Davis
Will Davis
sweet girlfriend real
Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.
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.
cute mean men
That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
uncles jazz selling
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
white long guy
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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.
musical taught jazz
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
cutting lips stills
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.
music mistake europe
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
music museums glasses
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.
musical festivals next
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.
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.
father want trumpets
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.