Bebop Quote by Shinichiro Watanabe

“Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien. -Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script”

— Keiko Nobumoto

I wanted to have lots of characters in 'Bebop' without white skin, and if people weren't used to that, well, maybe it would even…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues,…

— Cat Power

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come…

— Carla Bley

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that…

— Miles Davis

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

— Alice Coltrane

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