"If you really understand the meaning of be-bop,……" — Thelonious Monk

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• Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly… — Julie Burchill
• I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop… — Little Richard
• I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the… — Joey Ramone
• Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. — Thelonious Monk
• If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul. — Count Basie
• Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music. — Dizzy Gillespie
• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or… — Jack Kerouac
• Bop is no love-child of jazz. — Charlie Parker
• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham!… — Charlie Parker
• I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just… — Miles Davis
• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians,… — Gunther Schuller
• Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the… — Unknown Author

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