“Because you have technique, you don’t have to use it”
A meeting with Miles, Melody Maker, January 20, 1973
M ILES sat right up close to me and rasped in a voice like a thin file, “Whadda ya wanna know? Whadda ya wanna know?”
I said, talking about trumpets, he didn’t seem to be playing quite as much these days. There was less emphasis on notes and phrases.