Will Davis
Will Davis
i-can
I always listen to what I can leave out.
music trying hips
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
music play african-american
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
mistake improvisation
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
stupid people bops
I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.
kids rocks years
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
women mean want
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
ifs knows asks
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
music jazz heroin
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
men thinking sight
Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.
inspiration
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
music understood ifs
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
done legends miles
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
years giving one-day
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.