Dizzy Gillespie Professions : Bandleader Born : October 21, 1917 Died : January 6, 1993 Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Dizzy Gillespie 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. Dizzy Gillespie sound winning trying As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future. Dizzy Gillespie musician feet past I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. Dizzy Gillespie music careers sound 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. Dizzy Gillespie writing ideas thinking It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. Dizzy Gillespie music taken play Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that. Dizzy Gillespie music serious men One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange. Dizzy Gillespie jazz music reason You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it. Dizzy Gillespie stealing bird world There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy. Dizzy Gillespie revelations two firsts I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be. Dizzy Gillespie essence play trying The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. Dizzy Gillespie musician knowing play Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble! Dizzy Gillespie mutual-respect mutual trouble 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. Dizzy Gillespie style play sweet Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble. Dizzy Gillespie next important trouble 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 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference. Dizzy Gillespie indifference jazz gentleman The idea of life is to give and receive. Dizzy Gillespie life-is giving ideas 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 miles jazz stage Jazz will be the classical music of the future. Dizzy Gillespie classical-music jazz Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own. Dizzy Gillespie crazy play men Similar Authors Brian Jones bandleader Bert Ambrose bandleader Lionel Hampton bandleader Jools Holland bandleader Jay McShann bandleader Paul Whiteman bandleader All Authors
