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

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

- 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 and communic…

- Miroslav Vitous

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

- Miroslav Vitous

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am…

- 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 am very much engaged back …

- 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, which I …

- 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 ab…

- Miroslav Vitous

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

- Miroslav Vitous