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Jazz Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie
- Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
- Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
- Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
- Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
- Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's…
- Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
- I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
- How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles,…
- I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
- I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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