[Bebop is] Chinese music.

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really…

— Abigail Washburn

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

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

— Robert Wyatt

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

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

— Tommy Dorsey

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.

— Liu Wen

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,

— Abigail Washburn

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in…

— Wang Leehom

“Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.”

— Keith Richards

It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it.

— Ray Allen

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of…

— Timbaland

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

— Woody Herman

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

— Allan Holdsworth

“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

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