I think the people are just looking for freedom in…

Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear…

— Dan Feiszli

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking…

— Jack Kerouac

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

— Little Richard

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who…

— Charlie Parker

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio,…

— Eric Hernandez

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.

— Scott Yanow

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here…

— Herb Caen

Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player...

— Scott Yanow

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

— Thelonious Monk

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music,…

— Charlie Parker

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for…

— Gunther Schuller

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with…

— Julie Burchill

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

— Anonymous