Bops Quote by Coleman Hawkins

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

— Dexter Gordon

Change is one thing, progress is another.

— Bertrand Russell

Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you…

— Charles Manson

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten…

— Henry Ford

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

— George MacDonald

“All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results." "Fool! There is no such thing as…

— Roger Zelazny

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio,…

— Eric Hernandez

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who…

— Charlie Parker

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.

— Scott Yanow

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here…

— Herb Caen

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

— Little Richard

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking…

— Jack Kerouac

Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear…

— Dan Feiszli

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

— Dizzy Gillespie