Gillespie Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

• Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency. — Graeme Le Saux
• 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
• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984. — Ed Gillespie
• There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of… — Gene Lees
• 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

Who Wrote These Gillespie Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Gillespie Quotes as follows:

• 1 Gillespie Quote by Graeme Le Saux
• 1 Gillespie Quote by John Coltrane
• 1 Gillespie Quote by John Lewis
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Charles Mingus
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Ed Gillespie
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Gene Lees
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Elmore Leonard
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Andy Serkis
• 1 Gillespie Quote by Bill Wyman