Bebop Quote by Annette Johnson

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

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

— Woody Herman

[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

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

— Robert Wyatt

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 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

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

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

My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass…

— Larry Carlton

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

— Donald Byrd