I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.
Miles DavisThe 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