What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was…

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

— Noam Chomsky

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making…

— Horace Silver

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

— Albert Ayler

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

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just…

— Matthew Shipp

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

— Matthew Shipp

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

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

— Woody Herman

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

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

— Alice Coltrane

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

“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