#miles davis

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. ↗

— Ice T

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Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

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Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#ago #been #davis #desire #dynamic

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. ↗

— Bill Laswell

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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

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We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. ↗

— Don Cheadle

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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination. ↗

— Phil Collins

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