3 Miles Davis Quotes on Innovation

Miles Davis quotes on innovation

3. 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.

12. 'You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.'

17. 'When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit.'