Will Davis
Will Davis
play four notes
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
good-morning future creativity
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
silence important experience
In music, silence is more important than sound.
music play audience
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
music guitar self
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
life music beautiful
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
ignorance slavery
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
music museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
feet guy feels
What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
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.
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.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
play next notes
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
attention nervous pay-attention
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.