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
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.
technology thinking people
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.
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.
brother musical revolution
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
play next notes
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
attention nervous pay-attention
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
play way helping
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
good-morning good-day morning-inspirational
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
music matter kind
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
years practice play
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
style music-and-life jazz-and-life
For me, music and life are all about style.
music father play
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
phones answers shut-up
Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.