Bops Quote by Duke Ellington Download Open image “Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.” — Duke Ellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bops Like Missing Music Playing Scrabble Vowels
Life was so much easier when i's were just a vowel. Now I have to be concerned with Tunes, Touch, n Pads..... this could… — Tina Simpson Copy Share Image
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call… — Duke Ellington 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
