Song Quotes by Miroslav Vitous

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because…

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one…

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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

— Miroslav Vitous