Will Davis
Will Davis
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.
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--?
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.
musical festivals next
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.
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.
uncles jazz selling
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.
white long guy
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
musician spirit great-music
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.