"Bop is at the end of the road.……" — Dizzy Gillespie
"Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music."
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24 Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie has 24 quotes on this site.
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor…
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There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
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The idea of life is to give and receive.
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Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win.…
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You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you…
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There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
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Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
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Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more…
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Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
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Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and…
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I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
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More Bops Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly…
— Julie Burchill
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I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop…
— Little Richard
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I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the…
— Joey Ramone
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Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
— Thelonious Monk
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
— Count Basie
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or…
— Jack Kerouac
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Bop is no love-child of jazz.
— Charlie Parker
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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham!…
— Charlie Parker
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I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just…
— Miles Davis
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians,…
— Gunther Schuller
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Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the…
— Dan Feiszli
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Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.
— Scott Yanow
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