Bebop Quotes · Page 2

“it ain't as hard as picking cotton”

— wynton marsalis

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still…

— Mose Allison

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

— Jon Gordon

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp