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
sweet bird humanity
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.
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.
good-morning good-day morning-inspirational
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
style music-and-life jazz-and-life
For me, music and life are all about style.
food mind sluggish
Food makes my mind sluggish.
jazz notes
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
practice long sound
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself
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.
play way helping
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
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.
music play way
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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.
thinking play pay
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.
music silence framework
Music is the framework around the silence.