Quotes about Dizzy Gillespie

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

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They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as...

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

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

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

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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our...

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I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young...

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How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him?...

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