Bops Quote by Count Basie Download Open image “If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.” — Count Basie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bop Soul Bops Gonna Play Good Bop Guy Ifs Jazz Play Play Good Sort Bop Soul
There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress. — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
We just cook up bops, we make vibes; I try not to think too hard and just really have fun. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done… — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train,' — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter, — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound.… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it,… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop. — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
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