Bops Quotes

• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Missing You, Playing Jazz

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

  Squarepusher

  Moments

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• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

  Gunther Schuller

  War, Taken, Fusion

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• Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

  Thelonious Monk

  Way, Deliberate

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• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

  Q-Tip

  Teenager, Rap, Daddy

  "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.

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• A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

  Little Richard

  Explanation

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• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

  Charlie Parker

  Guy, Comedian, Jazz

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

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Want, Jazz, Ends

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• Bop is no love-child of jazz.

  Charlie Parker

  Children, Jazz, No Love

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• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

  Miles Davis

  Stupid, People, Dixieland

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• Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

  Herb Caen

  Cutting, Play, Style

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• I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.

  Joey Ramone

  Song, Hate, Blow

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• My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Cat, Artist, Soul

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

  Count Basie

  Play, Guy, Soul

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• I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

  Frank Oz

  Drama, Different, Done

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

  Rick James

  Tired, Thinking, Old Things

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Apr 22, 2015

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• I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

  Angela Lansbury

  Dance, Stars, Dancing

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• Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

  Bob Seger

  Dancing, Down And, Horizontal

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• Zip zop wop boopity bop.

  Bill Cosby

  Zips

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• Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player.

  Scott Yanow

  Player, Hard, Superiors

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• Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.

  Scott Yanow

  Diverse, Crossover, Capable

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• Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!

  Dan Feiszli

  Beautiful, Nice, Player

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• If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Jazz, Ifs

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• I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

  Little Richard

  Ems, Greyhounds, Dishes

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