Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn…

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been…

— Jaimoe

Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.

— Woody Herman

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

— Tommy Dorsey

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to…

— Quincy Jones

“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're…

— Anonymous

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

— Allan Holdsworth

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

— Alice Coltrane

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that…

— Miles Davis

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come…

— Carla Bley

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues,…

— Cat Power

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for…

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass…

— Larry Carlton