List of Miles Davis Quotes

Everybody Ought To Listen To Benny [carter]. He's A Whole Musical Education.

I Can Hear What I Want [people] To Play. If You Don't Hear What You Want Someone To Play, Then You Can't Tell 'em.

If I Have A Dynamite Bass Player - I Have Darryl Jones - It's So Easy To Write For Him Because He's Such A Funky Kid And He's Gifted. He's Like A Little Genius.

The Melody Is French. But That's The End Of The Record. I Named It "jean Pierre Then There Were None," You Know, Because Of The Big Explosion. You'll Like It. It's A Nice Album.

Somebody, My Daughter Or My Wife, Gave Me A Music Box For Christmas. It Plays "my Funny Valentine" On Celeste, You Know? So I Had Bobby [irving] Just Play "jean Pierre" With The Changes On Celeste.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's Got A Helluva Rhythm Section.and So Have The Pointer Sisters. And That Little Guy With Sammy Clayton. He Plays The Whole Show With 40 Members.

I Put All Those Synthesizer Sounds Behind "decoy" And "code M.d." A Lot Of Things We Write Together. A Lot Of Things Are His, But They Don't Have That Thing I Want On The Bottom. I Often Tell Him, I Say, "bobby [irving], If There's A Melody, There's Another One Somewhere That Goes With It."

I've Gotten Hernias From Drummers When They Drop Tempo.

Maybe You Play A Melody Twice. You Play It Once Like You Like It, And Some Parts That You Don't Like You Can Just Switch. An Eight-bar Motive - You Can Just Take It And Put It In The Front Or Back Or Something Like That. It Can Save You 50 Or 60 Or 70,000 Dollars, A Drum Machine. That's Why Everybody Uses It.

Like Ron Lorman's Always Sayin', "na-na-na-na-na," You Know What I Mean? I Don't Need That In The Studio.

I Can Tell. I'm Gifted With That, You Know. When I Hear That The Tempo Is Slightly Off, It's Hard For Me.

It's A Different Ballgame Now, So That Lets [teo] Macero Out. He's Always Complainin', Always Sick.