Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespiewas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth21 October 1917
CityCheraw, SC
CountryUnited States of America
music way jazz
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
blessed wife alcohol
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.
jazz miles stage
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.
done apologizing jazz
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
country latin play
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.
important next trouble
Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.
want bops jazz
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
jazz classical-music
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
growing-up want married-with-children
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!
crazy men play
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
ideas giving life-is
The idea of life is to give and receive.
play knowing musician
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
trouble mutual-respect mutual
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
sweet play style
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.