Will Davis
Will Davis
music men should
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
mean men white-man
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.
life music beautiful
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
attention nervous pay-attention
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
art sacrifice men
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
silence important experience
In music, silence is more important than sound.
play four notes
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
art thinking order
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. 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.
good-morning future creativity
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
music guitar self
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
change creating acting
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
nice men white
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change.
play notes
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.