Miroslav Vitous

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

— Miroslav Vitous

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

— Miroslav Vitous

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

— Miroslav Vitous

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

— Miroslav Vitous

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

— Miroslav Vitous

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

— Miroslav Vitous

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

— Miroslav Vitous

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called…

— Miroslav Vitous

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds…

— Miroslav Vitous

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic…

— Miroslav Vitous

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was…

— Miroslav Vitous

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on…

— Miroslav Vitous

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is…

— Miroslav Vitous

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the…

— Miroslav Vitous

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic…

— Miroslav Vitous

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than…

— Miroslav Vitous

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play.…

— Miroslav Vitous

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a…

— Miroslav Vitous

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to…

— Miroslav Vitous

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was…

— Miroslav Vitous

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you…

— Miroslav Vitous

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the…

— Miroslav Vitous

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played…

— Miroslav Vitous

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous