Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

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• Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while…
• There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
• The idea of life is to give and receive.
• Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and…
• You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
• There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
• Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
• Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
• Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
• Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
• Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's…
• Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
• I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
• How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles,…
• I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
• The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
• I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing…
• I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
• Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

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