4 Miles Davis Quotes on Jazz

Miles Davis quotes on jazz

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.

6. 'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'

10. 'He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.'

19. 'It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.''