"They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could……" — Jay McShann

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• Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic,… — Miles Davis
• Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me. — Albert Ayler
• What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. — Matthew Shipp
• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical… — Horace Silver
• Bebop has set music back twenty years. — Tommy Dorsey
• Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and… — Dave Van Ronk
• [Bebop is] Chinese music. — Louis Armstrong
• [On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever… — Ella Fitzgerald
• I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, — Donald Byrd
• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers,… — Cat Power
• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with… — David Sanborn
• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to… — Carla Bley

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