Miles Davis
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Miles Davis (1926-05-26 – 1991-09-28) was an American jazz musician.
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- The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
- About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review, 1958.[specific citation needed]
- It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.'
- Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (2005), ISBN 1-4013-0028-6
- Davis' response when questioned on what he heard in the music of Jimi Hendrix.
- Is that what you wanted, Alfred?
- Miles Davis asking Blue Note records producer Alfred Lion's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder's studio. Miles' gravelly-voice question was accidentally recorded, but included at the end of "One For Daddy-O" on the Cannonball Adderley recording "Somethin' Else": a famous recorded peek into the recording studio process.
- For me, music and life are all about style.
- Miles, the Autobiography (1989) (co-written with Quincy Troupe, p. 398.
- I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?
- Miles, the Autobiography (1989) (co-written with Quincy Troupe, p. 371.)
- At a White House reception in honor of Ray Charles 1987, this was his reply to a society lady seated next to him who had asked what he had done to be invited.
