Miles Davis
With warm, muted style on albums, such as
Kind of Blue
(1959), noted American trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis, Junior, later experimented with jazz-fusion.
Recordings of Armando Anthony Corea with group of Davis from 1968 to 1970 contributed to the development of jazz-fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis III led a band and composed.
From World War II, people widely considered Davis at the forefront of almost every major development as the most influential musicians of the 20th century, to the 1990s. He played various early bebop and one of the first cool records. He partially responsibly developed modal, and his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s arose.
Davis belongs to the great tradition that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, although people never considered his high level of technical ability unlike those of those musicians. His greatest achievement, however, moved beyond regard as a distinctive influence on his own instrument and shaped whole ways through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important musicians of the second half of the 20th century made their names.
The hall of fame for rock and roll posthumously inducted Davis on 13 March 2006. The walk of fame of Saint Louis and the halls for big band and jazz and downbeat jazz also inducted him.
“I always listen to what I can leave out.”
“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”
“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 is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.”
“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.”
“For me, music and life are all about style.”
“Music is an addiction.”
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself.”
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
“WE WERE ALL UP IN THAT SHIT LIKE A MUTHAFUCKA. IT'S CLEANER THAN A BROKE DICK DOG.”
“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.”
“you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“Don't play what s there play what's not there.”
“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.”
“Don t play what's there, play what's not there.”
“It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?”
“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”
“Philly Joe was a bitch. If he'd been a lawyer and white, he would have been president of the United States, because in order to get there you gotta talk fast and carry a lot of bullshit with you; Philly had it all and a lot to spare.”
“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”
“When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.”
“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”
“I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.”
“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”