Dizzy Gillespie Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Taken, Play

  Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

• 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.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Jazz, Miles, Stage

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

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Careers, Sound

• Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Men, Serious

• One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Jazz, Reason

• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Dance, Long

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

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Want, Bops, Jazz

• Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Guitar, Jazz

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

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Play, Jazz, Composition

• Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Way, Jazz

• Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Jazz, Classical Music

• Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Crazy, Men, Play

• Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Gentleman, Jazz, Indifference

• 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.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Thinking, People, Want

• I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Done, Jazz, Apologizing

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