Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
- I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about… — John Coltrane
- Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
- I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
- 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
- I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing. — Elmore Leonard
- I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie. — Andy Serkis
- The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that. — Bill Wyman