Will Davis
Will Davis
play chess ifs
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
painting music-is
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
ego needs rhythm
My ego only needs a good rhythm section
feet guy feels
What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
song play imagination
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
music museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
art play band
I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
mean thinking white
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?
brother musical revolution
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
sweet bird humanity
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.
music hype white
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
good-morning good-day morning-inspirational
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
style music-and-life jazz-and-life
For me, music and life are all about style.