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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

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think…

— Jamie Cullum

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

— Elmore Leonard

I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart. It was…

— Allan Holdsworth

I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.

— Andy Serkis

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

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

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and…

— Donald Byrd

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those…

— John Lewis

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for…

— GRiZ

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

— Bill Wyman

I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not…

— Ray Brown