Miles Davis Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

  Miles Davis

  Years, Giving, One Day

• Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

• I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  "Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis". Book by Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr, p. 18, 2009.

• Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

  Miles Davis

  Rain, Damn You, People

  Source: hepcat1950.com

• That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

  Miles Davis

  Attitude, Giving, Negative

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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