Quote of the Day

I always listen to what I can leave out.

—Miles Davis, in an interview with Amiri Baraka

Quote of the Day

If you play something that seems to be wrong, play it again, then play the same thing a third time. Then they’ll think that you meant it.

—Attributed to Charlie Parker by Miles Davis

Quote of the Day

You know, the melody is so strong there’s nothing you have to do with it. If you tried to play bebop on it, you’d wind up being a hip cornball. The thing I have to do now is make things connect, make them mean something in what I play around it.

—Miles Davis, on “Concierto de Aranjuez” from Sketches of Spain

Quote of the Day

When I asked him after the gig, “Miles, what am I supposed to be doing up there?” he said, “When they play fast, you play slow. When they play slow, you play fast.”

—Buster Williams, on Miles Davis