Miles Davis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1926 age 0

   Born

2. 1958 age 32

   CreditElevator to the Gallowscomposer

3. 1991 age 65

   Died

• JMJeanne Moreau1 title
• JBJean-Claude Brialy1 title
• CBChristian Brocard1 title
• HDHenri Decaë1 title
• MBMarcel Bernier1 title
• LDLucien Desagneaux1 title
• GGGisèle Grandpré1 title
• JHJacques Hilling1 title
• CDCharles Denner1 title
• GDGérard Darrieu1 title

• Spouse

  • CTCicely Tyson

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I’ll play it and tell you what it is later.

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me.

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Is that what you wanted, Alfred?

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• "You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." and "I love Pops" (Louis' nickname) … Louis has been through all kinds of styles. That's good tuba, by the way. You know you can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played — I mean even modern. I love his approach to the trumpet; he never sounds bad. He plays on the beat — with feeling. That's another phrase for swing. I also love the way he sings.

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When they make records with all the mistakes in, as well as the rest, then they'll really make jazz records. If the mistakes aren't there too, it ain't none of you.

  Miles Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0