Miles Davis
10 quotes
“I love Pops , I love the way he sings, the way he plays”
“Mastersounds Heard Again in New Album; Miles Davis At the Blackhawk”
“On Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.”
“You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.”
“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); Quotes in Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr (2009) Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, p. 18.”
“Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.”
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred? Miles Davis asking Blue Note producer Alfred Lion 's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder 's studio. Miles' was included at the end of "One For Daddy”
“columns, c. 1957, in response to”
“Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet”
“I’ll play it and tell you what it is later. In Szwed, John (2012).  So What: The Life of Miles Davis . Random House. ISBN 9781448106462 . , and in many other books Sometimes rendered as: I'll play it ' first and tell you what it is later.”