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
food mind sluggish
Food makes my mind sluggish.
mistake improvisation
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
ferrari jazz stills
I still got my Ferrari.
musical taught jazz
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
cutting lips stills
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.
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.
music museums glasses
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
long sound like-you
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
worry jazz notes
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
funny mean player
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
musical carter ought
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.