"It's taken me all my life to learn…" — Dizzy Gillespie
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
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24 Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie
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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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Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
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