Dizzy Quote by Elmore Leonard

I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton's Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just…

— Derek Trucks

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them,…

— Madlib

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then…

— Sharon Horgan

Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to him to…

— Lady Amelia Windsor

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn…

— John Coltrane

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

— Benmont Tench

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness…

— Athol Fugard

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a…

— Jay Mohr

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly