Gillespie Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
— Graeme Le Saux
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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
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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
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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
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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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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
— Ed Gillespie
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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
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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
— Elmore Leonard
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I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
— Andy Serkis
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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: