Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Feet

Musician

Past

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Bops

Jazz

Want

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.

Jazz

Miles

Stage

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Careers

Music

Sound

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don’t play them exactly like they do in their own country – I add my personal touch.

Country

Latin

Play

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it’s supposed to be.

Essence

Play

Trying

I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn’t had this stability.

Alcohol

Blessed

Wife

I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Composition

Jazz

Play

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Guitar

Jazz

Music

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.

Play

Style

Sweet

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Alcohol

Bird

Blessed

Bops

Careers

Composition

Country

Essence

Feet

Firsts

Gentleman

Giving

Growing Up

Guitar

Ideas

Important

Indifference

Jazz

Knowing

Latin

Life Is

Married With Children

Men

Miles

Music

Musician

Mutual

Mutual Respect

Past

Play

Player

Reason

Revelations

Serious

Something Special

Sound

Special

Stage

Stealing

Style

Sweet

Trouble

Trying

Two

Want

Way

Wife

Winning

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Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

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.

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don’t play them exactly like they do in their own country – I add my personal touch.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it’s supposed to be.

I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn’t had this stability.

I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

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