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- Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis
- Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me. — Albert Ayler
- What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. — Matthew Shipp
- Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's… — Horace Silver
- Bebop has set music back twenty years. — Tommy Dorsey
- Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. — Dave Van Ronk
- [Bebop is] Chinese music. — Louis Armstrong
- [On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. — Ella Fitzgerald
- I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, — Donald Byrd
- From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western,… — Cat Power
- I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced… — David Sanborn
- I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I… — Carla Bley