Bebop Quote by Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making…

— Horace Silver

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of…

— Emeril Lagasse

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that…

— Zach Galifianakis

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or…

— William O. Douglas

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

— Allan Holdsworth

“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're…

— Anonymous

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to…

— Quincy Jones

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

— Tommy Dorsey