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
beautiful strong wall
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.
hype people enough
People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype....
play now-and-then knows
Play what you know and then play above that
long sound like-you
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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.