American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
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I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.
Si no pudiera descubrir o enriquecer el arte, encontrar nuevos enfoques, me sentiría culpable de estar vivo. Preferiría la muerte a la ausencia de creación. No tendría ninguna razón para vivir si no pudiera crear, digamos, una composición. No que le guste a alguien, sino que me satisfaga, que les guste a mis amigos. Que me digan: 'Sí, Miles, qué bueno'. Sin eso, no querría vivir. Sé que es egoísta, ¡pero los genios son egoístas!
He never wasted a melody. He never wasted a phrase. He and Duke Ellington changed the whole sound. There is no way to describe it because there's nobody on this earth that can do that anymore. What he did to the texture of an orchestration, what he did with a pop song is like writing an original piece. Students will discover him. They'll have to take his music apart layer by layer. That's how they'll know what kind of genius he was.
No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo.