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
music notes
There are no wrong notes.
music blue done
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
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.
rocks rock-n-roll dukes
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.
best-love morning eye
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.
nice mean men
Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
i-can
I always listen to what I can leave out.
music space perfect
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
music three way
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
white america discovery
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?
music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change.
play now-and-then knows
Play what you know and then play above that
father want trumpets
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.