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Music Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie
- You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
- 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.
- Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
- I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing…
- I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
- Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
- It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
- One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
- They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
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