Miles Davis on Knowledge and Performance

"For example, the great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is known to have told his band members: 'You need to know your horn, know the chords, know all the tunes. Then you forget about all that and just play' (Sanjek 1990, p. 411)."


Kamberelis, 1999
Genre Development and Learning

I realize this is a lot of layers of quoting. I should track down the original source of the quote, especially given the vague wording of "known to have".

Still, great quote. I think it applies to what we teach at camp. They need to know the camera angles, shots, framing, the techniques of editing, lighting, audio. Then they need to forget about all that and tell a story.