See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.


Miles (ed. Simon and Schuster, 1990) - ISBN: 9780671725822


See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to...

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to...

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to...

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to...