I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop…

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

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

[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too. Like he…

— Jon Gordon

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about…

— J. J. Johnson

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

— Alice Coltrane