Bop Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its…
— Julie Burchill
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I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take…
— Little Richard
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I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song…
— Joey Ramone
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Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
— Thelonious Monk
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
— Count Basie
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Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
— Jack Kerouac
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Bop is no love-child of jazz.
— Charlie Parker
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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks…
— Charlie Parker
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I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much…
— Miles Davis
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this…
— Gunther Schuller
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Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the…
— Dan Feiszli
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Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.
— Scott Yanow
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Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player...
— Scott Yanow
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A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
— Little Richard
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But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
— Squarepusher
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Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
— Bob Seger
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I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I…
— Angela Lansbury
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a…
— Langston Hughes
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Zip zop wop boopity bop.
— Bill Cosby
Who Wrote These Bop Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 33 Bop Quotes, led by these top contributors: