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“I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Careers Quotes
#Sound Quotes
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“I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Serious Quotes
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“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
Source : Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).
#Music Quotes
#Taken Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Reason Quotes
#Process Quotes
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“The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Play Quotes
#Knowing Quotes
#Musician Quotes
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“Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Crazy Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Winning Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Sound Quotes
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“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Two Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Revelations Quotes
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“The idea of life is to give and receive.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Ideas Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Jazz Quotes
#Miles Quotes
#Stage Quotes
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“I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Done Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
#Apologizing Quotes
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“Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Want Quotes
#Bops Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Play Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
#Composition Quotes
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“Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Gentleman Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
#Indifference Quotes
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“Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Player Quotes
#Special Quotes
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“You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Bird Quotes
#World Quotes
#Stealing Quotes
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“Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Blue Quotes
#Eagles Quotes
#Hands Quotes
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“They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Dance Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.”
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Dizzy Gillespie
#Music Quotes
#Guitar Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
