Miles Davis Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Bird, Challenges

  "Miles, the autobiography".

• Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Real

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

• I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.

  Miles Davis

  Night, Play, Bird

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