"You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker]……" — 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."
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Dizzy Gillespie
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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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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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I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
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More Bird Quotes
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one of 2,421 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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